Cameron Balloons A-315
N12171 is a Cameron Balloons A-315, a balloon with no engine, built in 2006. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Wyoming Balloon CO, a corporation in Jackson, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 22, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons
- Model
- A-315 · all A-315s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6453
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A05AD0 (octal 50055320)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 25, 2016
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 22, 2006
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00250649
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wyoming Balloon CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 2578
Jackson, WY 83001-2578
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N12171, 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 Wyoming Balloon CO, a corporation, certificate issued August 25, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 22, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6453 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12171 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Convair 340 (serial 144, cancelled March 6, 1973). 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]
1 NTSB record under N12171: Accident on August 3, 2020 at Jackson, WY: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cameron A 315 · operated under 091
The balloon pilot’s inability to maintain the proper descent rate during the balloon’s approach to landing during un-forecasted weather, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR20CA267 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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