Andrew Philip Richardson A-88
N4009G is an Andrew Philip Richardson A-88, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Rochester, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated November 8, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Andrew Philip Richardson
- Model
- A-88
- Serial number
- 240
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4B03B (octal 51130073)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 28, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · November 8, 2018
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01253462
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Magee Brian T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 595 Culver Pkwy
Rochester, NY 14609-4563
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4009G, 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 Magee Brian T, an individual, certificate issued December 28, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 240 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4009G was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Quicksilver SPORT II (serial RAS2093, cancelled June 30, 2011); Bell 206A (serial 179, cancelled June 17, 1971). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4009G. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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