Andrew Philip Richardson Dba A55S
N4008F is an Andrew Philip Richardson Dba A55S, a balloon with no engine, built in 2018. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Bolivar, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 9, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 8, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Andrew Philip Richardson Dba
- Model
- A55S · all A55Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 253
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A4B017 (octal 51130027)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 9, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 8, 2018
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01271590
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Noyce Benjamin J
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1240 Russell Rd
Bolivar, TN 38008-3598 - Co-owners
- Noyce Michelle L
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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 N4008F, 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 Noyce Benjamin J, a co-owned, certificate issued April 9, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 8, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 253 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4008F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172 (serial 36908, cancelled October 7, 2010). 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 N4008F: Accident on May 3, 2008 at Mccall, ID: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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 172 · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot to maintain adequate visual lookout and clearance from another airplane while attempting to land on the same runway. Contributing to the accident was the non-standard pattern entry of the pilot.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA08FA116 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