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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Ultramagic Sa M-120
N18761 is an Ultramagic Sa M-120, a balloon with no engine, built in 2016. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Broomfield, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 29, 2016.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ultramagic Sa
- Model
- M-120
- Serial number
- 120/85
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A15DF1 (octal 50256761)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 29, 2016
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01231057
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vande Hoef Edward L DBA
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 890 Hemlock Way
Broomfield, CO 80020-1815 - Co-owners
- Aero-Cruise Balloon Adventures
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N18761 links to the rest of the register
- Ultramagic Sa 73 aircraft on the register
- Broomfield, CO 146 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,486 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N18761.json.
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The public federal record on N18761, 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 Vande Hoef Edward L DBA, an individual, certificate issued September 28, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 29, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120/85 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N18761 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Arrow Aircraft Corp F (serial 102, cancelled August 1, 1939). 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 N18761. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data