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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Adams 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon
- Model
- A55 · all A55s 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
- 159
- 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
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4BA52 (octal 51135122)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- May 13, 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 · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 30, 1985
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00673575
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vertical Concepts INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N4031S 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
- Vertical Concepts INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,373 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,952 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/N4031S.json.
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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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data