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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 2, 2026Kubicek Factory S R O BB92Z
N325YV is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB92Z, a balloon with no engine, built in 2024. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Napa Valley Aloft INC, a corporation in Napa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 1, 2024.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Kubicek Factory S R O
- Model
- BB92Z · all BB92Zs 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 BB92 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
- 2260
- 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
- A3831D (octal 50701435)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 18, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 18, 2024
- 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 · August 1, 2024
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01457968
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Napa Valley Aloft INC
- 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
- 2412 Third St
Napa, CA 94559-2212
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N325YV links to the rest of the register
- Kubicek Factory S R O BB92 5 registered
- Kubicek Factory S R O 164 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate B04CE · held by Kubicek Factory S R O
- Napa Valley Aloft INC 18 aircraft in the fleet
- Napa, CA 151 aircraft registered in this town
- Napa County · APC
- California 27,708 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Kubicek Factory S R O BB92 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Kubicek Factory S R O BB92 1 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N325YV, 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 Napa Valley Aloft INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 18, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 1, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2260 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N325YV 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 N325YV. 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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data