Adams Balloon A B
N4004G is an Adams Balloon A B, a balloon with no engine, built in 1983. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Middleville, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 1989 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated March 8, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon
- Model
- A B · all A Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 119
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A4AF8C (octal 51127614)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 1989
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; To show compliance with regulations · March 8, 1983
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00180974
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mills Douglas N
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9251 Garbow Rd
Middleville, MI 49333-9716
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 N4004G, 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 Mills Douglas N, an individual, certificate issued September 14, 1989, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated March 8, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 119 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4004G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 47G-4A (serial 7625, cancelled June 8, 1981). 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 N4004G: Accident on July 15, 1984 at Ballwin, MO: serious injuries. 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 AB · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC84LA216 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