Adams Balloon A55S
N9049A is an Adams Balloon A55S, a balloon with no engine. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 16, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon
- Model
- A55S · all A55Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 018
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 30 mph
- Transponder code
- AC819C (octal 53100634)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 21, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 16, 1976
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00621281
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gunter Ryan S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1510 La Cabra Dr SE
Albuquerque, NM 87123-4404
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9049A, 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 Gunter Ryan S, an individual, certificate issued October 21, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 018 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9049A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170A (serial 18808, cancelled February 16, 1951). 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 N9049A. 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