Kugler John CAPTIVE GAS
N61552 is a Kugler John CAPTIVE GAS, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Coyote Balloons US, a corporation in Mc Cook, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 6, 1996 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 1, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kugler John
- Model
- CAPTIVE GAS
- Serial number
- 470001
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- A80473 (octal 52002163)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 6, 1996
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 1, 1993
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00414132
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Coyote Balloons US
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 807 Spruce Rd
Mc Cook, NE 69001-4325
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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 2
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The public federal record on N61552, 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 Coyote Balloons US, a corporation, certificate issued November 6, 1996, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 1, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 470001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N61552 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17264635, cancelled December 29, 1989); Aeronca 0-58B (serial 11173, cancelled May 20, 1965). 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]
1 NTSB record under N61552: Accident on July 28, 1989 at Marana, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172M · operated under 091
INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT BY THE STUDENT PILOT, INADEQUATE SUPERVISION BY THE FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR (CFI), AND FUEL EXHAUSTION DUE TO LACK OF FUEL. RELATED FACTORS WERE: INOPERATIVE LEFT FUEL QUANTITY GAGE, THE CFI'S DECISION TO MAKE THE FLIGHT WITH A KNOWN DEFICIENCY IN THE FUEL GAGE, AND OBSTRUCTIONS (TREE LIKE CACTUS) IN THE EMERGENCY LANDING AREA.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX89LA256 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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