Kubicek Factory S R O BB40Z
N524LQ is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB40Z, a balloon with no engine, built in 2022. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Smith Ballooning LLC, an LLC in Walkersville, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 28, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kubicek Factory S R O
- Model
- BB40Z
- Serial number
- 1972
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A698D3 (octal 51514323)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 28, 2022
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01371736
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Ballooning LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 10760 Dublin Rd
Walkersville, MD 21793-9719
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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 N524LQ, 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 Smith Ballooning LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 15, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 28, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1972 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N524LQ 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 N524LQ. 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