Albert F Padelt 90-TA
N56US is an Albert F Padelt 90-TA, a balloon with no engine, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Barto, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 3, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Albert F Padelt
- Model
- 90-TA
- Serial number
- HY-7
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A72664 (octal 51623144)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 27, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 3, 2023
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01394379
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 N56US, 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 February 27, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 3, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial HY-7 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N56US was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piccard AX-6 (serial 656, cancelled May 25, 2016). 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 N56US. 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