Goodyear GZ-20A
N4A is a Goodyear GZ-20A, an airship with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, a corporation in Akron, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 1986 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 28, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Goodyear
- Model
- GZ-20A
- Serial number
- 4119
- Type
- Blimp or dirigible
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1983
- Cruising speed
- 56 mph
- Transponder code
- A4A7EF (octal 51123757)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 1986
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 28, 1995
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00533426
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 200 Innovation Way
Akron, OH 44316-0001
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 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4A, 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 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, a corporation, certificate issued June 20, 1986, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 28, 1995, 12 years after the 1983 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4119 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4A was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Loral Corporation GZ22 (serial 4120, cancelled February 17, 2015); Goodyear Airship TZ 123000 (serial C-135, cancelled March 5, 1970); Goodyear GZ-20 (serial C49, cancelled date not given). 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 N4A: Accident on October 28, 1999 at Mogadore, OH: 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: Loral Corp. GZ-22 · operated under 091
The failure of the flight control system manufacturer to meet design (hardness) specifications that resulted in stripped splines.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD00LA002 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