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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Cameron Balloons Ltd CAMERON UNCLE SAM
N120US is a Cameron Balloons Ltd CAMERON UNCLE SAM, a balloon with no engine, built in 1985. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Anderson Abruzzo Intl Balloon Museum Foundation, a corporation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 1, 2009.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Ltd
- Model
- CAMERON UNCLE SAM
- Serial number
- 1120
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- A05585 (octal 50052605)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 1, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 1, 2009
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01029502
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Anderson Abruzzo Intl Balloon Museum Foundation
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE
Albuquerque, NM 87113-2425
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
Connections how N120US links to the rest of the register
- Cameron Balloons Ltd 12 aircraft on the register
- Anderson Abruzzo Intl Balloon Museum Foundation 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Albuquerque, NM 1,180 aircraft registered in this town
- Albuquerque International Sunport · ABQ
- Double Eagle II Airport · AEG
- New Mexico 3,111 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Cable, damaged · 2005-06-01
- Report filed on this aircraft: Slide, damaged · 2003-05-28
- Report filed on this aircraft: Girt Bar, failed · 2003-05-17
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The public federal record on N120US, 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 Anderson Abruzzo Intl Balloon Museum Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued September 1, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 1, 2009, 24 years after the 1985 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1120 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N120US was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Airbus Industrie A320-214 (serial 1286, cancelled January 17, 2006). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N120US. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data