{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2026-05-26","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-05-14","city":"CARSON CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"510","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":"2033-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-05-18","maker":"Kubicek Factory S R O","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"KUBICEK FACTORY S R O","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1370473","mode_s_code":"52703165","mode_s_hex":"AB8675","model":"BB26M","n_number":"N8414A","name":"WELLS PHILIP","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PLACERVILLE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1988-07-30","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX88LA275","probable_cause":"","registration":"N8414A","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on July 30, 1988 at Placerville, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8414A is a Kubicek Factory S R O BB26M, a balloon with no engine, built in 2026. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Carson City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 26, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wells Philip, an individual, certificate issued May 14, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 26, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2625 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8414A was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7 AC-2827, cancelled March 6, 2017); Piper PA-28-161 (serial 288116267, cancelled March 29, 1991); Beech A35 (serial D-1892, cancelled April 20, 1959). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"1 NTSB record under N8414A: Accident on July 30, 1988 at Placerville, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"2625","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NV","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5400 NEWTON RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01557887","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8414A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2026,"zip":"897060420"}