{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-05-06","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-03-26","city":"WYLIE","country_code":"US","county_code":"085","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-03-26","maker":"Billy Billy Balloons","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BILLY BILLY BALLOONS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05642JA","mode_s_code":"50477014","mode_s_hex":"A27E0C","model":"BB-SS1","n_number":"N26QK","name":"BROKER WILLIAM","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N26QK is a Billy Billy Balloons BB-SS1, a balloon with no engine, built in 2026. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Wylie, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 6, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Broker William, an individual, certificate issued March 26, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 6, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial B5-65-004 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N26QK according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N26QK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"B5-65-004","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"409 KEEN AVE STE A","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01539118","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N26QK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2026,"zip":"750984078"}