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N1995J

Kubicek Factory S R O BB26AZ

Valid Nevada

N1995J is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB26AZ, a balloon with no engine, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Minden, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 12, 2026.

Aircraft

Maker
Kubicek Factory S R O
Model
BB26AZ · all BB26AZs and related versions
Serial number
2540
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2025
Transponder code
A18CAA (octal 50306252)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 21, 2026
Expires
January 31, 2033
Last FAA action
January 21, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · March 12, 2026
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01539008

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hustler James E
Type
Individual
Address
2713 Pamela Pl
Minden, NV 89423-9224

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

2013-11-04Lindstrand Balloons 90A · Registration expired, pending cancellation
1991-04-01Cessna T188C · exported to Greece · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N1995J, 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 Hustler James E, an individual, certificate issued January 21, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 12, 2026, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2540 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1995J was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Lindstrand Balloons 90A (serial 185, cancelled November 4, 2013); Cessna T188C (serial T18803330T, cancelled April 1, 1991). 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 N1995J. 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 August 27, 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