Cameron Balloons Ltd CAMERON WITCH-90
N140US is a Cameron Balloons Ltd CAMERON WITCH-90, a balloon with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Tyndall, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 11, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Ltd
- Model
- CAMERON WITCH-90
- Serial number
- 1330
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A0A483 (octal 50122203)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 4, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · June 11, 2009
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01029501
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kniffen Nicholas A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1408 Pine St
Tyndall, SD 57066-2131 - Co-owners
- Kniffen Leann F
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.
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The public federal record on N140US, 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 Kniffen Nicholas A, a co-owned, certificate issued March 4, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 11, 2009, 13 years after the 1996 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 1330 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N140US according to the deregistered file. [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 N140US. 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 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