Adams Balloon A55
N1059S is an Adams Balloon A55, a balloon with no engine, built in 1979. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 31, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 30, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon
- Model
- A55 · all A55s and related versions
- Serial number
- 046
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A01AEB (octal 50015353)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 31, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 30, 1979
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00140510
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Moughan Gavin P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12400 Sierra Grande Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87112-5841
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.
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The public federal record on N1059S, 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.
Valid registration to Moughan Gavin P, an individual, certificate issued October 31, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 30, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 046 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1059S according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
1 NTSB record under N1059S: Accident on October 8, 1989 at Albuquerque, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Adams A55 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO ADEQUATELY COMPENSATE FOR THE EXISTING WIND CONDITIONS. CONTRIBUTING FACTOR(S) WAS: TREES AND POWER LINES IN THE LANDING AREA.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN90LA003 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data