Skypower GBN-41-1000
N59SP is a Skypower GBN-41-1000, a balloon with no engine, built in 1981. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Wicker Basket Balloon Center, a corporation in Wixom, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 29, 1987 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 17, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Skypower
- Model
- GBN-41-1000
- Serial number
- 121
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A79CAC (octal 51716254)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 29, 1987
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 17, 1981
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00261825
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wicker Basket Balloon Center
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 50140 Pontiac Trl
Wixom, MI 48393
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N59SP, 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 Wicker Basket Balloon Center, a corporation, certificate issued January 29, 1987, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 17, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 121 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N59SP 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]
1 NTSB record under N59SP: Accident on October 6, 1985 at Pecos, NM: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Skypower GBN-41-100 · operated under 091
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data