Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB85Z
N4961D is a Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB85Z, a balloon with no engine, built in 2011. It has 1 seat. It is registered to District Aviation LLC, an LLC in Eloy, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 25, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balony Kubicek Spol Sro
- Model
- BB85Z · all BB85Zs and related versions
- Serial number
- 851
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A628E1 (octal 51424341)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · August 25, 2011
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01076415
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- District Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 107
Eloy, AZ 85131-0005
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4961D, 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 District Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 24, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 25, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 851 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4961D was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17272412, cancelled June 29, 2006); Cessna 182A (serial 51061, cancelled December 7, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N4961D: Accident on January 14, 2024 at Eloy, AZ: fatal, substantial damage (4 fatal). Accident on July 20, 2005 at North Las Vegas, NV: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Kubicek BB85Z · operated under 091
The pilot’s decision to open the rapid deflation valve during flight as a means of descending, which resulted in the deflation of the envelope and hard impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24FA072 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
the student pilot's failure to maintain directional control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX05CA240 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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