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N1514R

Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB30D

N1514R is a Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB30D, a balloon with no engine, built in 2020. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in San Jose, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 15, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 6, 2021.

Aircraft

Maker
Balony Kubicek Spol Sro
Model
BB30D · all BB30Ds and related versions
Serial number
1751
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2020
Transponder code
A0D0DA (octal 50150332)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 15, 2020
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · January 6, 2021
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01331501

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Thornton Dana
Type
Co-owned
Address
6990 F Gregorich Dr
San Jose, CA 95138
Co-owners
Thornton Denise

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 2

2020-10-06Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15 · Valid registration
2000-07-10Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N1514R, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Thornton Dana, a co-owned, certificate issued December 15, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 6, 2021, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1751 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1514R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15 (serial F8B-610, cancelled October 6, 2020); Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 (serial 10341, cancelled July 10, 2000). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1514R. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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