{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2025-02-25","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-12-26","city":"CARLISLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"181","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":"2031-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-12-26","maker":"Kubicek Factory S R O","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"KUBICEK FACTORY S R O","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1380325","mode_s_code":"51472345","mode_s_hex":"A674E5","model":"BB18XR","n_number":"N515KB","name":"WIND SURFER BALLOONING LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N515KB is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB18XR, a balloon with no engine, built in 2024. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Wind Surfer Ballooning LLC, an LLC in Carlisle, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 26, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 25, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wind Surfer Ballooning LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 26, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 25, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2380 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N515KB 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 N515KB. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":1,"serial_number":"2380","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3002 183RD AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01483247","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N515KB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2024,"zip":"500475456"}