Padelt P-42
N46096 is a Padelt P-42, a balloon with no engine, built in 2004. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Barto, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 2004 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 22, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Padelt
- Model
- P-42
- Serial number
- 1004
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A59D4D (octal 51316515)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 29, 2004
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 22, 2004
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00133059
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Padelt Albert F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 207 Kulps Rd
Barto, PA 19504-8851
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N46096, 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 Padelt Albert F, an individual, certificate issued September 29, 2004, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 22, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N46096 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172I (serial 17257040, cancelled June 13, 1977). 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 N46096. 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