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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Andrew Philip Richardson SOLO SYSTEM ACE
N901FK is an Andrew Philip Richardson SOLO SYSTEM ACE, a balloon with no engine, built in 2021. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Balloon Mississippi LLC, an LLC in Longview, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 11, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated August 31, 2021.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Andrew Philip Richardson
- Model
- SOLO SYSTEM ACE · all SOLO SYSTEM ACEs and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Andrew Philip Richardson SOLO SYSTEM ACE family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 004
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- AC736A (octal 53071552)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 11, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 31, 2021
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01336052
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Balloon Mississippi LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1100 Mccann Rd Apt J208
Longview, TX 75601-0048
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N901FK links to the rest of the register
- Andrew Philip Richardson SOLO SYSTEM ACE 5 registered
- Andrew Philip Richardson 10 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Balloon Mississippi LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Longview, TX 198 aircraft registered in this town
- East Texas Regional · GGG
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N901FK.json.
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The public federal record on N901FK, 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 Balloon Mississippi LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 11, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated August 31, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N901FK 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N901FK. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data