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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Adams Balloon A55S
N40229 is an Adams Balloon A55S, a balloon with no engine, built in 1985. It is registered to co-owned owners in Los Lunas, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 9, 2015 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 18, 1985.
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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
- 162
- 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
- 1985
- Cruising speed
- 30 mph
- Transponder code
- A4B6CF (octal 51133317)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 9, 2015
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- 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 · September 18, 1985
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00550216
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dimmitt William C
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 112 High Deal Dr
Los Lunas, NM 87031-9447 - Co-owners
- Dimmitt Michelle M
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 N40229 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
- Los Lunas, NM 118 aircraft registered in this town
- Mid Valley Airpark · E98
- New Mexico 3,105 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Adams Balloon A55 4 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N40229.json.
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The public federal record on N40229, 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 Dimmitt William C, a co-owned, certificate issued November 9, 2015, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated September 18, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 162 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40229 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Ayres Corporation S2R-T34 (serial T34-038, cancelled April 15, 1981); Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-7305028, cancelled April 23, 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 N40229. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data