Adams Balloons Llc A-B
N895FA is an Adams Balloons Llc A-B, a balloon with no engine, built in 2021. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Ault, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 30, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 24, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloons Llc
- Model
- A-B · all A-Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 279
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- AC5865 (octal 53054145)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 30, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- May 23, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 24, 2021
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01318763
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bradley Kenneth P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1072
Ault, CO 80610-1072
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.
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The public federal record on N895FA, 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 Bradley Kenneth P, an individual, certificate issued March 30, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 24, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 279 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N895FA according to the deregistered file. [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 N895FA: Accident on July 14, 2023 at Lafayette, CO: serious injuries. 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: Adams Balloon AB · operated under 091
An inadvertent hard landing in high wind conditions resulting in serious injury of two passengers. Contributing to the accident was the increase in prevailing winds prior to the forecast.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA305 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data