{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2017-08-10","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-08-30","city":"ALBUQUERQUE","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-10","maker":"Andrew Philip Richardson Dba","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ANDREW PHILIP RICHARDSON DBA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0050055","mode_s_code":"51131272","mode_s_hex":"A4B2BA","model":"A55S","n_number":"N4010K","name":"ADAMS STEVEN H","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Durango","damage":"","date":"2026-01-30","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"CEN26LA108","probable_cause":"The ground crewmember\u2019s failure to immediately let go of the balloon after it began an inadvertent climb while landing.","registration":"N4010K","state":"CO","summary":"Accident on January 30, 2026 at Durango, CO: serious injuries.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Kahului","damage":"MINR","date":"2007-03-28","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX07IA115","probable_cause":"The loss of tail rotor control due to wear damage to the pitch control input rod that resulted ultimately in the fatigue failure of the upper support yoke arm. Contributing factors were the improper maintenance inspection of the expansion pin assembly and the loose bushing in the lower support yoke arm.","registration":"N4010K","state":"HI","summary":"Incident on March 28, 2007 at Kahului, HI: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4010K is an Andrew Philip Richardson Dba A55S, a balloon with no engine, built in 2017. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 30, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 10, 2017.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Adams Steven H, an individual, certificate issued August 30, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 10, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 245 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4010K was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Eurocopter AS 350 BA (serial 2841, cancelled August 16, 2011); Raven Industries Inc. RALLY RX7 (serial RX7268, cancelled March 13, 1991). 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":"2 NTSB records under N4010K: Accident on January 30, 2026 at Durango, CO: serious injuries. Incident on March 28, 2007 at Kahului, HI: no injuries, minor damage. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"245","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NM","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5312 DEE DR NE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01260337","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4010K","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2017,"zip":"871111906"}