Kubicek Factory S R O BB26AZ
N2416D is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB26AZ, a balloon with no engine, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Delmarva Balloon Rides LLC, an LLC in Chester, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 24, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kubicek Factory S R O
- Model
- BB26AZ · all BB26AZs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2014
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A236E4 (octal 50433344)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 2, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 24, 2023
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01395418
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Delmarva Balloon Rides LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1137 Little Creek Rd
Chester, MD 21619-2713
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N2416D, 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 Delmarva Balloon Rides LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 2, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 24, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2014 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2416D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170B (serial 20568, cancelled April 15, 2013). 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]
1 NTSB record under N2416D: Accident on July 5, 1997 at Karlin, MI: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 170B · operated under 091
the pilot's impairment of judgment and performance due to alcohol, his resultant improper planning/decision, and his inadequate visual lookout while buzzing, which resulted in failure to see-and-avoid the top (ground/static) wires of an electrical power line.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI97LA194 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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