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N1603H

Cameron Balloons Us C-80

Valid Louisiana

N1603H is a Cameron Balloons Us C-80, a balloon with no engine, built in 1994. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Zachary, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 14, 1994 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 29, 1994.

Aircraft

Maker
Cameron Balloons Us
Model
C-80 · all C-80s and related versions
Serial number
5943
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
1994
Transponder code
A0F477 (octal 50172167)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 14, 1994
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · April 29, 1994
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00344902

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Howland Alan R
Type
Individual
Address
23922 Sunnyside Ln
Zachary, LA 70791-9716

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1989-04-26Cessna 177RG · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1603H, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Howland Alan R, an individual, certificate issued October 14, 1994, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 29, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5943 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1603H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 177RG (serial 177RG0776, cancelled April 26, 1989). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N1603H: Accident on December 22, 1985 at Atlanta, GA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ATL86LA047Accident on December 22, 1985 at Atlanta, GA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 177RG-0776

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 177RG · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL86LA047 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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