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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Adams 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon
- Model
- A55 · all A55s and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Adams Balloon A55 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 046
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A01AEB (octal 50015353)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 31, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 30, 1979
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00140510
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Moughan Gavin P
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 12400 Sierra Grande Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87112-5841
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N1059S links to the rest of the register
- Adams Balloon A55 59 registered
- Adams Balloon 80 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Albuquerque, NM 1,181 aircraft registered in this town
- Albuquerque International Sunport · ABQ
- Double Eagle II Airport · AEG
- New Mexico 3,108 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Adams Balloon A55 4 reports since 1995
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data