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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Ultramagic M-160
N402EW is an Ultramagic M-160, a balloon with no engine, built in 2008. It has 1 seat. It is registered to American Balloon Rides LLC, an LLC in Land O Lakes, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 17, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 11, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ultramagic
- Model
- M-160
- Serial number
- 160/58
- 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
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A4B488 (octal 51132210)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 17, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 17, 2023
- 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 · June 11, 2008
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01007190
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Balloon Rides 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
- 22933 Bradenwood Ct
Land O Lakes, FL 34639
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N402EW links to the rest of the register
- Ultramagic 45 aircraft on the register
- American Balloon Rides LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Land O Lakes, FL 40 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,711 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N402EW.json.
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The public federal record on N402EW, 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 American Balloon Rides LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 17, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 11, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 160/58 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N402EW 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 N402EW. 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