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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Adams Balloon A55S
N40206 is an Adams Balloon A55S, a balloon with no engine, built in 1983. It is registered to an individual in Hastings, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 16, 1983.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon
- Model
- A55S · all A55Ss and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Adams Balloon A55 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 129
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 1983
- Cruising speed
- 30 mph
- Transponder code
- A4B686 (octal 51133206)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 16, 1983
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00181074
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reeder Eric L
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1111 W State Rd
Hastings, MI 49058-9566
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
Connections how N40206 links to the rest of the register
- Adams Balloon A55 59 registered
- Adams Balloon 80 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Hastings, MI 31 aircraft registered in this town
- Hastings Airport · 9D9
- Michigan 7,225 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Adams Balloon A55 4 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N40206, 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 Reeder Eric L, an individual, certificate issued February 28, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 16, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 129 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40206 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Ayres Corporation S2R-T34 (serial T34-019, cancelled February 12, 1982); Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-7305004, cancelled August 15, 1973). 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 N40206. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data