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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Ultramagic S A M-105
N789UM is an Ultramagic S A M-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Skycab Balloon Promotions INC, a corporation in Louisville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 13, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 26, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ultramagic S A
- Model
- M-105
- Serial number
- 105/268
- 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
- 2025
- Transponder code
- AAB3C3 (octal 52531703)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 13, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 13, 2025
- 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 26, 2025
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01521949
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skycab Balloon Promotions INC
- 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
- 1200 Truman Park Dr
Louisville, KY 40245-4724
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N789UM links to the rest of the register
- Ultramagic S A 42 aircraft on the register
- Skycab Balloon Promotions INC 14 aircraft in the fleet
- Louisville, KY 628 aircraft registered in this town
- Bowman Field · LOU
- Louisville Muhammad Ali International · SDF
- Kentucky 2,981 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N789UM, 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 Skycab Balloon Promotions INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 13, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 26, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 105/268 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N789UM 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 N789UM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data