Adams Balloon A55S
N1063V is an Adams Balloon A55S, a balloon with no engine, built in 1982. It is registered to co-owned owners in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 4, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon
- Model
- A55S · all A55Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 099
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 30 mph
- Transponder code
- A01DD3 (octal 50016723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2019
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 4, 1982
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00002041
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fear Katrina Mj
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 6592 Towhee Ct NE
Rio Rancho, NM 87144-6004 - Co-owners
- Fear Robert C
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1063V, 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 Fear Katrina Mj, a co-owned, certificate issued January 22, 2019, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 4, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 099 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1063V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna TU206F (serial U206-02440, cancelled July 9, 1974). 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]
1 NTSB record under N1063V: Accident on December 6, 1997 at Gallup, NM: fatal. 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 A55S · operated under 091
failure of the ground crewman to follow proper procedures. A factor relating to the accident was: the passenger failed to follow the pilot's verbal instructions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW98LA064 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
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