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N901FK

Andrew Philip Richardson SOLO SYSTEM ACE

Valid Texas

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Andrew Philip Richardson
Model
SOLO SYSTEM ACE · all SOLO SYSTEM ACEs and related versions
Serial number
004
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2021
Transponder code
AC736A (octal 53071552)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 11, 2023
Expires
June 30, 2030
Last FAA action
June 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · August 31, 2021
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01336052

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Balloon Mississippi LLC
Type
LLC
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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Balloon Mississippi LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 11, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated August 31, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N901FK according to the deregistered file. [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 N901FK. 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