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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026
N741EC

Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB22E

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNew Jersey

N741EC is a Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB22E, a balloon with no engine, built in 2015. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Clipaway Ballooning LLC, an LLC in Brick, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2015 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 1, 2015.

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Aircraft

Maker
Balony Kubicek Spol Sro
Model
BB22E · all BB22Es 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 BB22 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
1166
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
2015
Transponder code
A9F6A8 (octal 52373250)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 6, 2015
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 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 1, 2015
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01187789

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Clipaway Ballooning 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
26 Rosalind Rd
Brick, NJ 08724-7128

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N741EC links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
Place
  • Brick, NJ 10 aircraft registered in this town
  • New Jersey 3,019 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N741EC, 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 Clipaway Ballooning LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 6, 2015, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 1, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1166 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N741EC according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N741EC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data