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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Balony Kubicek Spol S R O BB-S/UNICORN
N518TW is a Balony Kubicek Spol S R O BB-S/UNICORN, a balloon with no engine, built in 2020. It has 1 seat. It is registered to American Balloons LLC, an LLC in Land O Lakes, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 3, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 1, 2020.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Balony Kubicek Spol S R O
- Model
- BB-S/UNICORN
- Serial number
- 1679
- 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
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A680E5 (octal 51500345)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 3, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 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 1, 2020
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01322767
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Balloons LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 22933 Bradenwood Ct
Land O Lakes, FL 34639-6920
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N518TW links to the rest of the register
- Balony Kubicek Spol S R O 29 aircraft on the register
- American Balloons LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Land O Lakes, FL 40 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,702 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N518TW, 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 American Balloons LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 3, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 1, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1679 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N518TW 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 N518TW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data