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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB26XR
N717CX is a Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB26XR, a balloon with no engine, built in 2021. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Balloon the Nations LLC, an LLC in Carmel, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 29, 2021.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Balony Kubicek Spol Sro
- Model
- BB26XR · all BB26XRs 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 BB26 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
- 1780
- 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
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A99656 (octal 52313126)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 20, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 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 29, 2021
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01344289
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Balloon the Nations 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
- 14472 Jeremy Dr
Carmel, IN 46033-8769
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N717CX links to the rest of the register
- Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB26 47 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
- Balloon The Nations LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Carmel, IN 399 aircraft registered in this town
- Indiana 5,702 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB26 14 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N717CX, 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 Balloon the Nations LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 20, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 29, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1780 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N717CX 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N717CX. 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 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 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 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data