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N73BS

Piendel Richard 2490

N73BS is a Piendel Richard 2490, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Annville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 22, 2010 and expires on December 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Piendel Richard
Model
2490
Serial number
101
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A9C8DC (octal 52344334)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 22, 2010
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01063296

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Piendel Richard J
Type
Individual
Address
11 Ironwood Dr
Annville, PA 17003-9713

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

1997-11-14Piper PA-34-220T · exported to United Kingdom · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N73BS, 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 Piendel Richard J, an individual, certificate issued December 22, 2010, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N73BS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-220T (serial 3448078, cancelled November 14, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N73BS. 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