Kubicek Factory S R O BB34Z
N168ME is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB34Z, a balloon with no engine, built in 2024. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Vass, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 13, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kubicek Factory S R O
- Model
- BB34Z · all BB34Zs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2291
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A1107E (octal 50210176)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 25, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 13, 2025
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01491714
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Meyer Mark
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 425 Riverbirch Dr
Vass, NC 28394-9551
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N168ME, 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 Meyer Mark, an individual, certificate issued February 25, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 13, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2291 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N168ME according to the deregistered file. [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]
1 NTSB record under N168ME: Accident on September 25, 2003 at Houston, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during a landing. A contributing factor was the pilot's diverted attention while performing the after landing check.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW03LA231 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data