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N525XA

Richardson Andrew P RICHARDSON-RACER 70

Valid Ohio

N525XA is a Richardson Andrew P RICHARDSON-RACER 70, a balloon with no engine, built in 2014. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Cusick James F, a partnership in Marysville, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated December 11, 2014.

Aircraft

Maker
Richardson Andrew P
Model
RICHARDSON-RACER 70
Serial number
014
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2014
Transponder code
A69D8F (octal 51516617)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 11, 2025
Expires
March 31, 2032
Last FAA action
March 11, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · December 11, 2014
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01161836

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cusick James F
Type
Partnership
Address
16649 County Home Rd
Marysville, OH 43040-9707
Co-owners
Cusick Laura E

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N525XA, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Cusick James F, a partnership, certificate issued March 11, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated December 11, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 014 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N525XA according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N525XA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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