Adams Balloon A55
N4031S is an Adams Balloon A55, a balloon with no engine. It is registered to Vertical Concepts INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 30, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon
- Model
- A55 · all A55s and related versions
- Serial number
- 159
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4BA52 (octal 51135122)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- May 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · August 30, 1985
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00673575
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vertical Concepts INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674
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 N4031S, 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 Vertical Concepts INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 9, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 159 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4031S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hiller UH-12E (serial 5171, cancelled June 29, 1981); Sikorsky S-61D (serial 61706, cancelled November 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 N4031S. 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