Adams Balloon A55S
N9804N is an Adams Balloon A55S, a balloon with no engine, built in 1986. It is registered to an individual in Waterford, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2014 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 19, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon
- Model
- A55S · all A55Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 170
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 1986
- Cruising speed
- 30 mph
- Transponder code
- ADAE15 (octal 53327025)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 16, 2014
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 19, 1986
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00650727
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gauthier Travis G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2140 Old Ln
Waterford, MI 48327-1333
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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 N9804N, 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 Gauthier Travis G, an individual, certificate issued April 16, 2014, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 19, 1986, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 170 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9804N 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 N9804N. 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