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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Adams Balloons Llc LD S
N906YB is an Adams Balloons Llc LD S, a balloon with no engine, built in 2021. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Bloomington, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 19, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 17, 2021.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloons Llc
- Model
- LD S
- Serial number
- 290
- 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
- AC879E (octal 53103636)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 19, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- April 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 17, 2021
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01343428
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Oliver William M
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2600 W Delap Rd
Bloomington, IN 47404-9516
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N906YB links to the rest of the register
- Adams Balloons Llc 37 aircraft on the register
- Type certificate A15SO · held by Adams Aerostats LLC
- Bloomington, IN 99 aircraft registered in this town
- Monroe County · BMG
- Lake Monroe Seaplane Base · 07I
- Indiana 5,704 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N906YB, 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 Oliver William M, an individual, certificate issued December 19, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 17, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 290 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N906YB 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 N906YB. 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