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N8940A

Adams Balloons Llc A60-S

Valid Colorado

N8940A is an Adams Balloons Llc A60-S, a balloon with no engine, built in 2022. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Windsor, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 5, 2022.

Aircraft

Maker
Adams Balloons Llc
Model
A60-S · all A60-Ss and related versions
Serial number
286
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2022
Transponder code
AC5689 (octal 53053211)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 9, 2023
Expires
June 30, 2030
Last FAA action
June 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 5, 2022
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01328706

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lambertson Steven
Type
Co-owned
Address
420 10Th St
Windsor, CO 80550-4726
Co-owners
Lambertson Nancy

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

2014-11-21Beech C35 · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N8940A, 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 Lambertson Steven, a co-owned, certificate issued June 9, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 5, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 286 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8940A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech C35 (serial D-2694, cancelled November 21, 2014). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N8940A: Accident on May 1, 1982 at Dillsboro, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CHI82DA148Accident on May 1, 1982 at Dillsboro, IN: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: D2694

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech C35 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI82DA148 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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