Kubicek Factory S R O BB22Z
N898LW is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB22Z, a balloon with no engine, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Discover Balloons, a partnership in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 28, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 20, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kubicek Factory S R O
- Model
- BB22Z · all BB22Zs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2145
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- AC641B (octal 53062033)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 28, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 20, 2023
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01411158
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Discover Balloons
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 205-B San Felipe NW
Box 321
Albuquerque, NM 87104 - Co-owners
- Lewis Patty / Grimes Doug
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N898LW, 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 Discover Balloons, a partnership, certificate issued June 28, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 20, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2145 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N898LW 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 N898LW. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data