Adams Balloon A55
N9802C is an Adams Balloon A55, a balloon with no engine, built in 1985. It is registered to co-owned owners in Corrales, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2012 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 11, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon
- Model
- A55 · all A55s and related versions
- Serial number
- 166
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- ADADC5 (octal 53326705)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 23, 2012
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 11, 1985
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00121646
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cowen David
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 683 Calle De Blas
Corrales, NM 87048-5105 - Co-owners
- Cowen Tammy
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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 N9802C, 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 Cowen David, a co-owned, certificate issued January 23, 2012, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 11, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 166 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9802C 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 N9802C. 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