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N920TW

Kubicek Factory S R O BB26AZ

Valid Virginia

N920TW is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB26AZ, a balloon with no engine, built in 2024. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Colonial Heights, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 4, 2025.

Aircraft

Maker
Kubicek Factory S R O
Model
BB26AZ · all BB26AZs and related versions
Serial number
2212
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2024
Transponder code
ACBFE8 (octal 53137750)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 3, 2025
Expires
April 30, 2032
Last FAA action
April 3, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · February 4, 2025
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01486084

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bauschatz Ross A
Type
Individual
Address
119 Watercress Ct
Colonial Heights, VA 23834-2193

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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

2007-05-10Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82(MD-82) · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N920TW, 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 Bauschatz Ross A, an individual, certificate issued April 3, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 4, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2212 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N920TW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82(MD-82) (serial 49369, cancelled May 10, 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 N920TW. 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 August 27, 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