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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Kubicek Factory S R O BB18XR
N2923 is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB18XR, a balloon with no engine, built in 2024. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Wind Surfer Ballooning LLC, an LLC in Carlisle, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 25, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Kubicek Factory S R O
- Model
- BB18XR · all BB18XRs and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Kubicek Factory S R O BB18 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 2387
- 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 · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A2FFA9 (octal 50577651)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 14, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 14, 2025
- 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 · February 25, 2025
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01483246
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wind Surfer Ballooning LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3002 183Rd Ave
Carlisle, IA 50047-5456
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Connections how N2923 links to the rest of the register
- Kubicek Factory S R O BB18 10 registered
- Kubicek Factory S R O 163 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wind Surfer Ballooning LLC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Carlisle, IA 31 aircraft registered in this town
- Iowa 4,506 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Kubicek Factory S R O BB18 1 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N2923, 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 Wind Surfer Ballooning LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 14, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 25, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2387 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2923 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Destiny Aircraft Corp D2000 (serial 2C0381, cancelled May 9, 2011); Bell H13G (serial 1045, cancelled July 20, 1998); Waco GXE (serial 756, cancelled April 13, 1934). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2923. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data