Andrew Philip Richardson Dba A-B
N4004D is an Andrew Philip Richardson Dba A-B, a balloon with no engine, built in 2018. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Los Ranchos, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 8, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 10, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Andrew Philip Richardson Dba
- Model
- A-B · all A-Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 251
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A4AF89 (octal 51127611)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 8, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 8, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 10, 2018
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01271591
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hodge Justin R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 327 Willow Rd
Los Ranchos, NM 87107
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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 N4004D, 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 Hodge Justin R, an individual, certificate issued February 8, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 10, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 251 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4004D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182A (serial 34704, cancelled January 14, 1958). 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 N4004D: Accident on August 4, 2010 at Donalsonville, GA: no 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: Ayres Corporation S2R-T34 · operated under 137
A total loss of engine power due to a failure of the compressor turbine blades for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA10LA401 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
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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