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N912TW

Kubicek Factory S R O BB26AZ

Valid Texas

N912TW is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB26AZ, a balloon with no engine, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Frisco, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 22, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 31, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Kubicek Factory S R O
Model
BB26AZ · all BB26AZs and related versions
Serial number
2223
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2023
Transponder code
AC9FD7 (octal 53117727)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 22, 2023
Expires
November 30, 2030
Last FAA action
November 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · January 31, 2024
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01429188

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Griffin David R
Type
Individual
Address
8506 Indianola Dr
Frisco, TX 75033-6704

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

2007-03-13Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82(MD-82) · exported to Thailand · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N912TW, 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 Griffin David R, an individual, certificate issued November 22, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 31, 2024, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2223 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N912TW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82(MD-82) (serial 49183, cancelled March 13, 2007). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N912TW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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