Cameron Balloons Us Z-160
N1256R is a Cameron Balloons Us Z-160, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Midwest Ballooning Adventures INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 25, 2022 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 21, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- Z-160
- Serial number
- 6423
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0697F (octal 50064577)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 25, 2022
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 21, 2005
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00181679
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Midwest Ballooning Adventures INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5352 W Carmen Ave
Chicago, IL 60630-2224
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1256R, 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 Midwest Ballooning Adventures INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 25, 2022, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6423 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1256R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 17-30A (serial 30396, cancelled October 3, 2001). 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 N1256R: Accident on February 13, 2001 at Pampa, TX: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Bellanca 17-30A · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain terrain clearance. Contributing factors were the dark night and the fog.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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