Kubicek Factory S R O BB18XR
N515KB is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB18XR, a balloon with no engine, built in 2024. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Wind Surfer Ballooning LLC, an LLC in Carlisle, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 26, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 25, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kubicek Factory S R O
- Model
- BB18XR · all BB18XRs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2380
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A674E5 (octal 51472345)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 26, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 26, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · February 25, 2025
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01483247
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wind Surfer Ballooning LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3002 183Rd Ave
Carlisle, IA 50047-5456
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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 N515KB, 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 Wind Surfer Ballooning LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 26, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. 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 2380 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N515KB 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 N515KB. 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 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