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N10631

Adams Balloon A50S

Valid Georgia

N10631 is an Adams Balloon A50S, a balloon with no engine, built in 1982. It is registered to an individual in Acworth, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2014 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 1, 1982.

Aircraft

Maker
Adams Balloon
Model
A50S · all A50Ss and related versions
Serial number
094
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
0
Year built
1982
Cruising speed
30 mph
Transponder code
A01DD9 (octal 50016731)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 26, 2014
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · February 1, 1982
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00054650

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Beck Richard S
Type
Individual
Address
4497 Old Grogan Rd NW
Acworth, GA 30101-4268

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

1973-03-14Reims Aviation CESSNA F337G · exported to United Kingdom · Valid registration
1933-01-11Ogden Glider Club PRIMARY GLIDER · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N10631, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Beck Richard S, an individual, certificate issued March 26, 2014, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 1, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 094 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N10631 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Reims Aviation CESSNA F337G (serial 0056, cancelled March 14, 1973); Ogden Glider Club PRIMARY GLIDER (serial 1, cancelled January 11, 1933). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N10631. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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