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N4007C

Andrew Philip Richardson Dba A-B

Valid Delaware

N4007C 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 Seaford, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 3, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 26, 2018.

Aircraft

Maker
Andrew Philip Richardson Dba
Model
A-B · all A-Bs and related versions
Serial number
228
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
1
Year built
2018
Transponder code
A4AFF1 (octal 51127761)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 3, 2021
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · April 26, 2018
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01247415

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wix Shawn A
Type
Individual
Address
21544 Hill Rd
Seaford, DE 19973-4912

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 2

2011-02-14Douglas DC-3A-S1C3G · exported to Mexico · Revoked, pending cancellation
1953-10-07Stinson 108-3 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N4007C, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Wix Shawn A, an individual, certificate issued February 3, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 26, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 228 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4007C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Douglas DC-3A-S1C3G (serial 11719, cancelled February 14, 2011); Stinson 108-3 (serial 108-5007, cancelled October 7, 1953). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4007C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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