Adams Balloon A55S
N4035T is an Adams Balloon A55S, a balloon with no engine, built in 1984. It is registered to an individual in Fairacres, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 5, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon
- Model
- A55S · all A55Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 139
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 1984
- Cruising speed
- 30 mph
- Transponder code
- A4BADF (octal 51135337)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 16, 2016
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 5, 1984
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00851084
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hawkins Charles W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 744
Fairacres, NM 88033-0744
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 N4035T, 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 Hawkins Charles W, an individual, certificate issued November 16, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 5, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 139 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4035T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hiller UH-12 (serial 5198, cancelled August 31, 1982). 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 N4035T: Accident on March 18, 2000 at Los Lunas, NM: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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 A55S · operated under 091
The pilot's decision not to deflate the envelope. A factor was the wind gust.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN00LA062 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