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N2160G

Kubicek Factory S R O BB26M

Valid New York

N2160G is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB26M, a balloon with no engine, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Selkirk, New York. 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 12, 2025.

Aircraft

Maker
Kubicek Factory S R O
Model
BB26M · all BB26Ms and related versions
Serial number
2285
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2025
Transponder code
A1D22B (octal 50351053)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 25, 2025
Expires
February 29, 2032
Last FAA action
February 25, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · March 12, 2025
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01491715

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Griswold Scott
Type
Individual
Address
86 Dorchester Ave
Selkirk, NY 12158-9764

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

2012-08-10Cessna 182 · Sale reported, canceled

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N2160G, 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 Griswold Scott, an individual, certificate issued February 25, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

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

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2285 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2160G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182 (serial 51460, cancelled August 10, 2012). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N2160G: Accident on August 9, 1994 at Creel: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX94WA341Accident on August 9, 1994 at Creel: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX94WA341 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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