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N1049Y

Cameron Balloons A-315

Valid Arizona

N1049Y is a Cameron Balloons A-315, a balloon with no engine, built in 2005. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Airtime Equipment LLC, an LLC in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 30, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Cameron Balloons
Model
A-315 · all A-315s and related versions
Serial number
6429
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
12
Year built
2005
Transponder code
A0173A (octal 50013472)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 23, 2024
Expires
April 30, 2031
Last FAA action
April 23, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · September 30, 2005
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00197079

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Airtime Equipment LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1837 S Mesa Dr Ste C100
Mesa, AZ 85210-6219

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

2001-09-18Aeronca S-65-CA · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1049Y, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Airtime Equipment LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 23, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 30, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6429 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1049Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca S-65-CA (serial CA13191, cancelled September 18, 2001). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N1049Y: Accident on July 28, 2001 at Esperance, NY: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

IAD01FA086Accident on July 28, 2001 at Esperance, NY: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).serial on NTSB record: CA 13191

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aeronca S-65-CA · operated under 091

The pilot's inadequate decision and his failure to maintain obstacle clearance. Contributing factors are a transmission wire and the pilot's intentional low pass.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD01FA086 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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