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N61553

Kugler John CAPTIVE GAS

Valid Nebraska

N61553 is a Kugler John CAPTIVE GAS, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mccook, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 22, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Kugler John
Model
CAPTIVE GAS
Serial number
470002
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A80474 (octal 52002164)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 20, 2019
Expires
June 30, 2029
Last FAA action
August 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 22, 2000
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00424132

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kugler John
Type
Individual
Address
807 Spruce Rd
Mccook, NE 69001-4325

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

1982-09-23Boeing A75N1 · exported to Japan · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data