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N2161T

Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB40Z

Valid Oklahoma

N2161T is a Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB40Z, a balloon with no engine, built in 2015. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 24, 2016.

Aircraft

Maker
Balony Kubicek Spol Sro
Model
BB40Z · all BB40Zs and related versions
Serial number
1191
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2015
Transponder code
A1D259 (octal 50351131)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 5, 2024
Expires
December 31, 2031
Last FAA action
December 5, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · February 24, 2016
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01206815

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bennett Jeff A
Type
Individual
Address
9308 E 57Th St
Tulsa, OK 74145-7940

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

2015-09-28Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B · Valid registration
1977-08-03Piper PA-28-180 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N2161T, 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 Bennett Jeff A, an individual, certificate issued December 5, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 24, 2016, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1191 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2161T was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B (serial F8B-2084, cancelled September 28, 2015); Piper PA-28-180 (serial 28-7205011, cancelled August 3, 1977). 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 N2161T. 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