{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-11-13","city":"BLOOMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"121","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2032-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-11-13","maker":"Adams Balloon Loft Llc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ADAMS BALLOON LOFT LLC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0066360","mode_s_code":"51127501","mode_s_hex":"A4AF41","model":"A-60S","n_number":"N4002B","name":"ADAMS BALLOON LOFT LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Alexandria","damage":"DEST","date":"2002-01-27","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI02LA070","probable_cause":"The pilot's disregard of  the weather evaluation and his attempt to fly into known adverse weather without an instrument rating.  Factors in the accident were the low ceiling, the low visibility, and the icing conditions.","registration":"N4002B","state":"MN","summary":"Accident on January 27, 2002 at Alexandria, MN: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4002B is an Adams Balloon Loft Llc A-60S, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Adams Balloon Loft LLC, an LLC in Bloomington, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Adams Balloon Loft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 13, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 405 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4002B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 17-30A (serial 75-30761, cancelled May 22, 2017). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N4002B: Accident on January 27, 2002 at Alexandria, MN: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":1,"serial_number":"405","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2700 S KIRBY RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01529718","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4002B","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"474038805"}