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N90WH

Balony Kubicek Spol S R O BB26ED

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesPennsylvania

N90WH is a Balony Kubicek Spol S R O BB26ED, a balloon with no engine, built in 2019. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Endless Mountains Hot Air Balloons INC, a corporation in Nicholson, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 31, 2019.

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Aircraft

Maker
Balony Kubicek Spol S R O
Model
BB26ED · all BB26EDs 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 S R O BB26 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
1597
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
2019
Transponder code
AC6ECF (octal 53067317)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 21, 2019
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 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 · October 31, 2019
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01305668

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Endless Mountains Hot Air Balloons 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
6 Stone Ln
Nicholson, PA 18446-7430

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

2012-09-06Hayes George W LANCAIR 235 · Registration pending, canceled

Connections how N90WH links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
Place
  • Nicholson, PA 10 aircraft registered in this town
  • Pennsylvania 6,195 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N90WH, 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 Endless Mountains Hot Air Balloons INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 21, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 31, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1597 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N90WH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hayes George W LANCAIR 235 (serial 101920, cancelled September 6, 2012). 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 N90WH: Accident on October 12, 1996 at Kansas City, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

CHI97LA009Accident on October 12, 1996 at Kansas City, MO: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 101920

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hayes LANCAIR 235 · operated under 091

a stuck carburetor float valve which resulted in excessive fuel flow and ultimately fuel exhaustion. A factor related to the accident was the rough terrain on which the forced landing was made.

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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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