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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB20
N704U is a Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB20, a balloon with no engine, built in 2003. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 13, 2016.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Balony Kubicek Spol Sro
- Model
- BB20 · all BB20s 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 Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB20 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
- 235
- 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
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A9652C (octal 52262454)
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 14, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 13, 2016
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01208518
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Glen Michael
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 922 S Roslyn Pl
Mesa, AZ 85208-2632
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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 N704U links to the rest of the register
- Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB20 9 registered
- Balony Kubicek Spol Sro 228 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Mesa, AZ 714 aircraft registered in this town
- Falcon Field · FFZ
- Arizona 8,426 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB20 7 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N704U, 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 Glen Michael, an individual, certificate issued January 14, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 13, 2016, 13 years after the 2003 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 235 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N704U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild FH-227B (serial 540, cancelled May 4, 1976). 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 N704U. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data