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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Ultramagic S-160
N30048 is an Ultramagic S-160, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Phoenix, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 9, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 18, 2001.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ultramagic
- Model
- S-160
- Serial number
- 160/27
- 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
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A32257 (octal 50621127)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 9, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 9, 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 · May 18, 2001
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00853775
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Radowski Johnathan P
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1342 W Tonopah Dr
Phoenix, AZ 85027-3605
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
Connections how N30048 links to the rest of the register
- Ultramagic 45 aircraft on the register
- Phoenix, AZ 1,000 aircraft registered in this town
- Mesa Gateway Airport · IWA
- Phoenix Deer Valley Airport · DVT
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International · PHX
- Arizona 8,435 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N30048.json.
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The public federal record on N30048, 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 Radowski Johnathan P, an individual, certificate issued October 9, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 160/27 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N30048 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17264121, cancelled September 9, 1977); Douglas C-54B (serial 18384, cancelled April 10, 1962). 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 N30048: Accident on March 18, 2010 at Rancho Santa Fe, CA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ultramagic S-160 · operated under 091
A reduction of burner/heat production due to low fuel. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's continued flight with a low fuel status.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data