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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Galaxy Balloons Inc GALAXY 9B
N2161L is a Galaxy Balloons Inc GALAXY 9B, a balloon with no engine, built in 2005. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 29, 2005.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Galaxy Balloons Inc
- Model
- GALAXY 9B
- Serial number
- GLX-1129B
- 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
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A1D252 (octal 50351122)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 22, 2024
- 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 · December 29, 2005
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00211159
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Castanier Susan B
- 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
- 5248 Molokai Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111-1942
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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 N2161L links to the rest of the register
- Galaxy Balloons Inc 23 aircraft on the register
- Albuquerque, NM 1,180 aircraft registered in this town
- Albuquerque International Sunport · ABQ
- Double Eagle II Airport · AEG
- New Mexico 3,111 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N2161L, 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 Castanier Susan B, an individual, certificate issued March 21, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 29, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GLX-1129B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2161L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sell Donald C AIR COMMAND 503 (serial DC1, cancelled August 8, 2002). 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 N2161L. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data