Adams Balloon A55S
N9808S is an Adams Balloon A55S, a balloon with no engine. It is registered to an individual in Newnan, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 22, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon
- Model
- A55S · all A55Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 179
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 30 mph
- Transponder code
- ADAEA5 (octal 53327245)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 20, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 22, 1987
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00383941
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Martin Pamela M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 39 Coalson Ct
Newnan, GA 30263-7029
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9808S, 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 Martin Pamela M, an individual, certificate issued September 20, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. 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 179 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9808S 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]
1 NTSB record under N9808S: Accident on July 4, 1999 at Woodstock, GA: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Adams A55S · operated under 091
A loose connection between the fuel line fitting and the burner assembly which resulted in a fire.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL99LA103 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data