John R Kugler CAPTIVE GAS
N446VW is a John R Kugler CAPTIVE GAS, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mccook, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 22, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- John R Kugler
- Model
- CAPTIVE GAS
- Serial number
- 370001
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A562D7 (octal 51261327)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 22, 2011
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01070542
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kugler John R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 807 Spruce Rd
Mccook, NE 69001-4325
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Documents on file 1
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The public federal record on N446VW, 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 Kugler John R, an individual, certificate issued June 22, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 370001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N446VW according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 30, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N446VW. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data