Adams Balloon A55
N4021L is an Adams Balloon A55, a balloon with no engine, built in 1983. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 2, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 28, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon
- Model
- A55 · all A55s and related versions
- Serial number
- 134
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A4B695 (octal 51133225)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 2, 2015
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 28, 1983
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00141054
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gunter Ryan S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1510 La Cabra Dr SE
Albuquerque, NM 87123-4404
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4021L, 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 Gunter Ryan S, an individual, certificate issued June 2, 2015, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 28, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 134 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4021L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ayres Corp S-2R (serial R1820-024DC, cancelled December 4, 1981). 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 N4021L: Accident on January 21, 1990 at Glendale, AZ: serious injuries. 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: Adams A55 · operated under 091
IMPROPER PLANNING/DECISION BY THE PILOT. THE UNEXPECTED HIGH WIND CONDITION WAS A RELATED FACTOR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX90LA080 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
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