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N2862J

Billy Billy Balloons BB-39

Valid Texas

N2862J is a Billy Billy Balloons BB-39, a balloon with no engine, built in 2022. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Texas Tea Promotions LLC, an LLC in Hutto, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 13, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 25, 2023.

Aircraft

Maker
Billy Billy Balloons
Model
BB-39 · all BB-39s and related versions
Serial number
BB-004
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2022
Transponder code
A2E6EC (octal 50563354)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 13, 2023
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
February 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · June 25, 2023
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01393454

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Texas Tea Promotions LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1114 Concan Dr
Hutto, TX 78634-5496

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

2023-02-13Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S-55A · Valid registration
1982-06-08Cessna A188B · exported to Egypt · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N2862J, 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 Texas Tea Promotions LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 13, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated June 25, 2023, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BB-004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2862J was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S-55A (serial S55A-3009, cancelled February 13, 2023); Cessna A188B (serial 18803537T, cancelled June 8, 1982). 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 N2862J. 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