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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Ultramagic M-145
N50CD is an Ultramagic M-145, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to David Lee Bradley Productions INC DBA, a corporation in Temecula, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 21, 1998 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 24, 1998.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ultramagic
- Model
- M-145
- Serial number
- 145/09
- 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
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A637CD (octal 51433715)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 21, 1998
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 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 · September 24, 1998
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00727211
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- David Lee Bradley Productions INC DBA
- 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
- 33133 Vista del Monte
Temecula, CA 92591-4949 - Co-owners
- California Dreamin
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N50CD links to the rest of the register
- Ultramagic 45 aircraft on the register
- David Lee Bradley Productions INC DBA 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Temecula, CA 160 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,673 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N50CD, 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 David Lee Bradley Productions INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued May 21, 1998, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 24, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 145/09 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N50CD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: North American NA-265-40 (serial 28242, cancelled October 15, 1991). 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]
1 NTSB record under N50CD: Accident on February 3, 1990 at Detroit, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: North American NA-265-40 · operated under PUBU
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- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data