Adams Balloon A55
N40209 is an Adams Balloon A55, a balloon with no engine, built in 1983. It is registered to an individual in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 22, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon
- Model
- A55 · all A55s and related versions
- Serial number
- 130
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A4B689 (octal 51133211)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 26, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · August 22, 1983
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00491064
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hodge Steven J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 42322
Tucson, AZ 85733-2322
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N40209, 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 Hodge Steven J, an individual, certificate issued March 26, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 22, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 130 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N40209 according to the deregistered file. [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 N40209. 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