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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Kubicek Factory S R O BB26Z
N942PR is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB26Z, a balloon with no engine, built in 2022. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Portland Rose Balloons LLC, an LLC in Wilsonville, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 25, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Kubicek Factory S R O
- Model
- BB26Z · all BB26Zs and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Kubicek Factory 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
- 1995
- 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
- 2022
- Transponder code
- AD15EB (octal 53212753)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 23, 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 · April 25, 2023
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01384292
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Portland Rose Balloons LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 31090 SW Nehalem Ct
Wilsonville, OR 97070-9736
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N942PR links to the rest of the register
- Kubicek Factory S R O BB26 68 registered
- Kubicek Factory S R O 163 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate B04CE · held by Kubicek Factory S R O
- Portland Rose Balloons LLC 25 aircraft in the fleet
- Wilsonville, OR 130 aircraft registered in this town
- Oregon 7,013 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N942PR.json.
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The public federal record on N942PR, 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 Portland Rose Balloons LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 23, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 25, 2023, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1995 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N942PR 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 N942PR. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data