Adams Balloon A55S
N9805S is an Adams Balloon A55S, a balloon with no engine. It is registered to an individual in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 8, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon
- Model
- A55S · all A55Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 180
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 30 mph
- Transponder code
- ADAE3C (octal 53327074)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 5, 2014
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- June 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 8, 1987
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00285460
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Depew Michael P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 405 Brook Meadow Dr
Mechanicsburg, PA 17050-3206
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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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N9805S, 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 Depew Michael P, an individual, certificate issued May 5, 2014, expires May 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 180 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9805S 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 N9805S. 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