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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Kubicek Factory S R O BB17XR
N430CB is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB17XR, a balloon with no engine, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 31, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 27, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Kubicek Factory S R O
- Model
- BB17XR
- Serial number
- 2172
- 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
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A52352 (octal 51221522)
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 31, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 15, 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 · June 27, 2023
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01407725
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Cody
- 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
- 10041 Blue Bell Dr
Fort Worth, TX 76108-7109
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N430CB links to the rest of the register
- Kubicek Factory S R O 165 aircraft on the register
- Type certificate B04CE · held by Kubicek Factory S R O
- Fort Worth, TX 1,891 aircraft registered in this town
- Fort Worth Meacham International · FTW
- Fort Worth Spinks Airport · FWS
- Perot Fld/Fort Worth Alliance Airport · AFW
- Bourland Field · 50F
- 3 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N430CB.json.
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The public federal record on N430CB, 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 Smith Cody, an individual, certificate issued October 31, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 27, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2172 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N430CB 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 N430CB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data