Adams Balloon Loft Llc A55S
N1096F is an Adams Balloon Loft Llc A55S, a balloon with no engine, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Balloons Over Bloomington LLC, an LLC in Bloomington, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 29, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon Loft Llc
- Model
- A55S
- Serial number
- 401
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A02953 (octal 50024523)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 5, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 29, 2023
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01405229
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Balloons Over Bloomington LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 504 N Staats Dr
Bloomington, IN 47408-2736
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
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The public federal record on N1096F, 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 Balloons Over Bloomington LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 5, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 29, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 401 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1096F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna A185F (serial 18502751, cancelled April 10, 1998). 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 N1096F: Accident on May 20, 1986 at Bernie, MO: no injuries, destroyed. 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: Cessna A185F · operated under 091
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- 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