Andrew Philip Richardson Dba A55S
N5461E is an Andrew Philip Richardson Dba A55S, a balloon with no engine, built in 2016. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Placitas, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2018 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 5, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Andrew Philip Richardson Dba
- Model
- A55S · all A55Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 205
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A6F0B6 (octal 51570266)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2018
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · February 5, 2016
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01202231
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Randall Thomas D
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 53 Petroglyph Trl
Placitas, NM 87043-9467 - Co-owners
- Randall Ellen D
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 N5461E, 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 Randall Thomas D, a co-owned, certificate issued May 8, 2018, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 5, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 205 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5461E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Helio H-250 (serial 2518, cancelled January 30, 2013). 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 N5461E: Accident on April 12, 1995 at Round Mountain, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 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: Helio H-250 · operated under 091
the pilot's poor preflight planning/preparation and in-flight decision by continuing VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions. The pilot's delay in returning to the departure airport, the low clouds, and low visibility were factors in this accident.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX95FA161 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