Adams Balloons Llc A60-S
N8874A is an Adams Balloons Llc A60-S, a balloon with no engine, built in 2020. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Balloons Over Bloomington LLC, an LLC in Bloomington, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 20, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloons Llc
- Model
- A60-S · all A60-Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 275
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- AC3ABB (octal 53035273)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 28, 2022
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · August 20, 2020
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01318767
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Balloons Over Bloomington LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 504 N Staats Dr
Bloomington, IN 47408-2736
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N8874A, 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 Balloons Over Bloomington LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 28, 2022, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 20, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 275 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8874A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech B35 (serial D-2502, cancelled July 13, 2012); Beech B35 (serial D-2529, cancelled May 24, 1973). 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 N8874A. 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