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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB60Z
N485TW is a Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB60Z, a balloon with no engine, built in 2015. It has 13 seats. It is registered to Amazing Adventures INC, a corporation in Temecula, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 28, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 28, 2016.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Balony Kubicek Spol Sro
- Model
- BB60Z · all BB60Zs 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 Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB60 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
- 1198
- 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
- 13
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A5FCEA (octal 51376352)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 28, 2017
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 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 · January 28, 2016
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01200818
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Amazing Adventures 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
- PO Box 891951
Temecula, CA 92589-1951
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N485TW links to the rest of the register
- Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB60 15 registered
- Balony Kubicek Spol Sro 228 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Amazing Adventures INC 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Temecula, CA 160 aircraft registered in this town
- California 28,158 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB60 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB60 9 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N485TW, 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 Amazing Adventures INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 28, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 28, 2016, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1198 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N485TW 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 N485TW. 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 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 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 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data