Adams Balloons Llc A55S
N491A is an Adams Balloons Llc A55S, a balloon with no engine, built in 2020. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 21, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 19, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloons Llc
- Model
- A55S · all A55Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 261
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A613CF (octal 51411717)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 21, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 21, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 19, 2020
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01295834
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ragsdale William M II
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3610 W Wade Ln
Colorado Springs, CO 80917-5824
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N491A, 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 Ragsdale William M II, an individual, certificate issued May 21, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 19, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 261 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N491A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-201 (serial 2844050, cancelled April 26, 2004); Beech 95-C55 (serial TE295, cancelled November 2, 1983). 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 N491A: Accident on February 25, 1982 at Huron, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Beech BE-95-C55 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX82FA085 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