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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Kubicek Factory S R O BB34Z
N703PC is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB34Z, a balloon with no engine, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Reach for the Stars Hot Air Balloon Foundation, a corporation in Winchester, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 2, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Kubicek Factory S R O
- Model
- BB34Z · all BB34Zs 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
- 2066
- 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
- A960FB (octal 52260373)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 12, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 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 · February 2, 2023
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01389586
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reach for the Stars Hot Air Balloon Foundation
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 32365 Thompson Rd
Winchester, CA 92596-9335
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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 N703PC 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
- Reach for the Stars Hot Air Balloon Foundation 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Winchester, CA 28 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,610 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 N703PC, 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 Reach for the Stars Hot Air Balloon Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued January 12, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 2, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2066 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N703PC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 707-123B (serial 19335, cancelled August 24, 1990). 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 N703PC. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data