Adams Balloon A55
N10623 is an Adams Balloon A55, a balloon with no engine, built in 1982. It is registered to Ripsnorter LLC, an LLC in Washington, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2014 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 22, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon
- Model
- A55 · all A55s and related versions
- Serial number
- 097
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A01DB8 (octal 50016670)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 18, 2014
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 22, 1982
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00541661
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ripsnorter LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1191 E 200 N
Washington, IN 47501-7671
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N10623, 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 Ripsnorter LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 18, 2014, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 22, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 097 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N10623 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Curtiss Wright C-46A (serial 43-47321, cancelled July 9, 1973); Fairchild 71 (serial 647, cancelled March 23, 1948). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N10623. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data