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N270BB

Billy Billy Balloons BB-39

Valid Texas

N270BB is a Billy Billy Balloons BB-39, a balloon with no engine, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Frisco, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 26, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 8, 2023.

Aircraft

Maker
Billy Billy Balloons
Model
BB-39 · all BB-39s and related versions
Serial number
005
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2023
Transponder code
A2A697 (octal 50523227)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 26, 2023
Expires
May 31, 2030
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · November 8, 2023
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01391575

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Vesely Scott
Type
Individual
Address
7842 Whitehart St
Frisco, TX 75035-3162

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

2000-04-08Mooney M20M · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N270BB, 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 Vesely Scott, an individual, certificate issued May 26, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated November 8, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N270BB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20M (serial 27-0012, cancelled April 8, 2000). 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 N270BB: Accident on December 12, 1999 at Missoula, MT: 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

SEA00FA031Accident on December 12, 1999 at Missoula, MT: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 27-0012

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mooney M20-M · operated under 091

Engine failure for undetermined reasons. Factors include the lack of suitable terrain for an emergency landing, trees and mountainous terrain.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA00FA031 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