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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Sproul Keith A SPROUL 48K-16
N48KX is a Sproul Keith A SPROUL 48K-16, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in North Brunswick, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2003 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 30, 2003.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sproul Keith A
- Model
- SPROUL 48K-16
- Serial number
- S-001
- 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
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A5E737 (octal 51363467)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 10, 2003
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 30, 2003
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00026279
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sproul Keith A
- 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
- 698 Magnolia Rd
North Brunswick, NJ 08902-2647
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N48KX links to the rest of the register
- Sproul Keith A 6 aircraft on the register
- North Brunswick, NJ 34 aircraft registered in this town
- New Jersey 3,017 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N48KX.json.
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The public federal record on N48KX, 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 Sproul Keith A, an individual, certificate issued January 10, 2003, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 30, 2003, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S-001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N48KX 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 N48KX. 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 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data