Goodyear GZ-20A
N10A is a Goodyear GZ-20A, an airship with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Goodyear Tire & Rubber CO, a corporation in Akron, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 1979 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 3, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Goodyear
- Model
- GZ-20A
- Serial number
- 4117
- Type
- Blimp or dirigible
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 56 mph
- Transponder code
- A0025B (octal 50001133)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 20, 1979
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 3, 1979
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00000000
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Goodyear Tire & Rubber CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 200 Innovation Way
Akron, OH 44316
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 4
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N10A, 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 Goodyear Tire & Rubber CO, a corporation, certificate issued September 20, 1979, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 3, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4117 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N10A was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Goodyear Airship GAC-K (serial C-86, cancelled April 22, 1969); Goodyear Zeppelin Corp T Z (serial GZ-17, cancelled March 12, 1941); Goodyear Zeppelin Corp T Z (serial GZ-4, cancelled July 14, 1931). 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 N10A: Accident on December 4, 2003 at Gardena, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: Goodyear GZ-20A · operated under 091
The pilot's delayed go-around during final approach to land, which resulted in an in-flight collision with a fence. A factor associated with the accident is the pilot's failure to maintain adequate altitude/clearance from obstructions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX04LA055 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