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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Jennie Rose Kerber J56R
N892CK is a Jennie Rose Kerber J56R, a balloon with no engine, built in 2020. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Wayland, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 2, 2020.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Jennie Rose Kerber
- Model
- J56R
- Serial number
- 01
- 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
- AC4CFE (octal 53046376)
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 18, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 2, 2020
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01323707
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kerber Jennie R
- 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
- 486 135Th Ave
Wayland, MI 49348-9401
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N892CK links to the rest of the register
- Jennie Rose Kerber 1 aircraft on the register
- Wayland, MI 11 aircraft registered in this town
- Calkins Field · 41C
- Michigan 7,226 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N892CK.json.
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The public federal record on N892CK, 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 Kerber Jennie R, an individual, certificate issued August 18, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 2, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 01 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N892CK 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 N892CK. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data