Cameron Balloons Us N-90
N16004 is a Cameron Balloons Us N-90, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 27, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 11, 1994. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- N-90 · all N-90s and related versions
- Serial number
- 5919
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0F423 (octal 50172043)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 27, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 11, 1994
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00184642
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elkins Justin
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 93 Oakwood Ln
Helena, MT 59601-0381
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 1
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N16004, 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 Elkins Justin, an individual, certificate issued April 27, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. 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 5919 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N16004 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 150L (serial 15073403, cancelled June 18, 1990); Douglas DC3-G202A (serial 1498, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 29, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N16004: Accident on July 2, 1989 at Sugar Grove, IL: fatal, destroyed (1 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: Cessna 150L · operated under 091
FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AIRSPEED ABOVE STALL SPEED, AND A STALL/SPIN ENCOUNTERED WITH INADEQUATE ALTITUDE FOR RECOVERY. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THUNDERSTORM, PRE-FLIGHT BRIEFING NOT OBTAINED AND POOR WEATHER EVALUATION BY THE PILOT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI89FA124 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