Kubicek Factory S R O BB20XR
N5117N is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB20XR, a balloon with no engine, built in 2024. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Lynnwood, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 25, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kubicek Factory S R O
- Model
- BB20XR · all BB20XRs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2379
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A66880 (octal 51464200)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 11, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · February 25, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01483248
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Walter Carolanne
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1831 208Th St SW
Lynnwood, WA 98036-7952
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 N5117N, 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 Walter Carolanne, an individual, certificate issued July 11, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 25, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2379 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5117N was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 182Q (serial 18267528, cancelled January 23, 2018); Cessna T-50 (serial 2831, cancelled January 4, 1952). 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 N5117N: Accident on October 18, 1996 at Pocatello, ID: minor 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182Q · operated under 091
inadequate preflight by the pilot, which resulted in fuel exhaustion, due to an inadequate supply of fuel. Soft terrain at the emergency landing site was a related factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA97LA017 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