Kubicek Factory S R O BB34Z
N118JS is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB34Z, a balloon with no engine, built in 2022. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Indy Hot Air LLC, an LLC in Westfield, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 27, 2022 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 1, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kubicek Factory S R O
- Model
- BB34Z · all BB34Zs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1989
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A04AC4 (octal 50045304)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 27, 2022
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 1, 2022
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01366992
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Indy Hot Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 16530 Haddam Ln
Westfield, IN 46062-8201
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N118JS, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Indy Hot Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 27, 2022, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 1, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1989 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N118JS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Schaub Jocelynn M SONERAI IIL (serial 051270, cancelled April 9, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N118JS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data