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N486TW

Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB30Z

Valid Alabama

N486TW is a Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB30Z, a balloon with no engine, built in 2016. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Taking Off Hot Air Balloon CO, a corporation in Magnolia Springs, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 2, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 31, 2016.

Aircraft

Maker
Balony Kubicek Spol Sro
Model
BB30Z · all BB30Zs and related versions
Serial number
1206
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2016
Transponder code
A600A1 (octal 51400241)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 2, 2016
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · March 31, 2016
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
01213289

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Taking Off Hot Air Balloon CO
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 113
Magnolia Springs, AL 36555-0113

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N486TW, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Taking Off Hot Air Balloon CO, a corporation, certificate issued November 2, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 31, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1206 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N486TW according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N486TW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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