Adams Balloon A55S
N9819Q is an Adams Balloon A55S, a balloon with no engine. It is registered to an individual in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated November 25, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Balloon
- Model
- A55S · all A55Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 184
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 30 mph
- Transponder code
- ADB27D (octal 53331175)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 12, 2017
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · November 25, 1987
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00974201
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jones Dan E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 20 China Cockle Way
Hilton Head Island, SC 29926-1907
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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 N9819Q, 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 Jones Dan E, an individual, certificate issued January 12, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 184 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9819Q 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 N9819Q. 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