John Kugler KUGLER-2
N556JK is a John Kugler KUGLER-2, a balloon with no engine, built in 2014. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mccook, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 15, 2014. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- John Kugler
- Model
- KUGLER-2
- Serial number
- 002
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A71687 (octal 51613207)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 21, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 15, 2014
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01155872
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kugler John
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 807 Spruce Rd
Mccook, NE 69001-4325
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Documents on file 1
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The public federal record on N556JK, 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 Kugler John, an individual, certificate issued July 21, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 15, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N556JK according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 30, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N556JK. 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