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N984MW

Kubicek Factory S R O BB26Z

N984MW is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB26Z, a balloon with no engine, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Rainbow Ryders INC, a corporation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 11, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 25, 2023.

Aircraft

Maker
Kubicek Factory S R O
Model
BB26Z · all BB26Zs and related versions
Serial number
2187
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2023
Transponder code
ADBB28 (octal 53335450)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 11, 2023
Expires
September 30, 2030
Last FAA action
September 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · September 25, 2023
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01420457

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rainbow Ryders INC
Type
Corporation
Address
5601 Eagle Rock Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87113-1765

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

2012-06-27Cessna 340A · exported to Panama · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N984MW, 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 Rainbow Ryders INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 11, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 25, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2187 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N984MW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 340A (serial 340A0070, cancelled June 27, 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N984MW. 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