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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Ultramagic M-160
N243UM is an Ultramagic M-160, a balloon with no engine, built in 2021. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Mars Leasing CO, a corporation in Phoenix, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 26, 2021.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ultramagic
- Model
- M-160
- Serial number
- 160/97
- 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
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A23CF2 (octal 50436362)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 22, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- 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 · June 26, 2021
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01341293
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mars Leasing CO
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2243 e Rose Garden Loop
Phoenix, AZ 85024-4444
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N243UM links to the rest of the register
- Ultramagic 45 aircraft on the register
- Mars Leasing CO 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Phoenix, AZ 993 aircraft registered in this town
- Mesa Gateway Airport · IWA
- Phoenix Deer Valley Airport · DVT
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International · PHX
- Arizona 8,422 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N243UM, 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 Mars Leasing CO, a corporation, certificate issued September 22, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 26, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 160/97 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N243UM according to the deregistered file. [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 N243UM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data