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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Kubicek Factory S R O BB34E
N56KB is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB34E, a balloon with no engine, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Western Horizons LLC, an LLC in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 30, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Kubicek Factory S R O
- Model
- BB34E · all BB34Es and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Kubicek Factory S R O BB34 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 2112
- 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
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A72574 (octal 51622564)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 10, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 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 30, 2023
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01422122
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Western Horizons 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
- 13115 Wild Turkey Ln
Hot Springs, SD 57747-7345
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N56KB links to the rest of the register
- Kubicek Factory S R O BB34 13 registered
- Kubicek Factory S R O 163 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate B04CE · held by Kubicek Factory S R O
- Western Horizons LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Hot Springs, SD 45 aircraft registered in this town
- Hot Springs Municipal · HSR
- South Dakota 2,273 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Kubicek Factory S R O BB34 1 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N56KB, 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 Western Horizons LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 10, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 30, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2112 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N56KB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Pitts Aerobatics S-2B (serial 5096, cancelled March 27, 2014). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N56KB. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data