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N720DS

Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB34Z

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesArizona

N720DS is a Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB34Z, a balloon with no engine, built in 2020. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 23, 2020 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 7, 2020.

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Aircraft

Maker
Balony Kubicek Spol Sro
Model
BB34Z · all BB34Zs and related versions
Built of
fabric and wicker
A 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 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
1752
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
2020
Transponder code
A9A3E8 (octal 52321750)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 23, 2020
Expires
November 30, 2027
Last FAA action
April 1, 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 · December 7, 2020
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01328808

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Moore Gary K
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
1805 Willow Ave
Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403-5633
Co-owners
Moore Diana L

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

2014-09-15Boeing 737-8FV · exported to India · Valid registration
1997-05-21Stoeckler Danny Robert RV-4 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Connections how N720DS links to the rest of the register

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Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N720DS, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Moore Gary K, a co-owned, certificate issued November 23, 2020, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 7, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1752 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N720DS was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Boeing 737-8FV (serial 40614, cancelled September 15, 2014); Stoeckler Danny Robert RV-4 (serial 1083, cancelled May 21, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N720DS: Accident on July 24, 1993 at Lake Delton, WI: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CHI93DEP02Accident on July 24, 1993 at Lake Delton, WI: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 1083

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stoeckler RV-4 · operated under 091

the pilot-in-command's failure to maintain proper altitude. A factor was trees.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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