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N5555T

Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB30Z

Valid Texas

N5555T is a Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB30Z, a balloon with no engine, built in 2017. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Amarillo, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2017 and expires on March 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 27, 2017.

Aircraft

Maker
Balony Kubicek Spol Sro
Model
BB30Z · all BB30Zs and related versions
Serial number
1299
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2017
Transponder code
A71517 (octal 51612427)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 14, 2017
Expires
March 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · April 27, 2017
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01244847

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hartshorn Sharon
Type
Individual
Address
4025 Pinehurst Dr
Amarillo, TX 79109-5031

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

1992-05-11Socata TB-20 TRINIDAD · exported to Germany · Valid registration
1989-09-19Cessna 172E · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N5555T, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Hartshorn Sharon, an individual, certificate issued March 14, 2017, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 27, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1299 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5555T was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Socata TB-20 TRINIDAD (serial 1308, cancelled May 11, 1992); Cessna 172E (serial 17251455, cancelled September 19, 1989). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5555T: Accident on August 13, 1988 at Floweree, MS: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

MIA88FA254Accident on August 13, 1988 at Floweree, MS: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 172-51455

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172E · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA88FA254 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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