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N16RX

Cameron Balloons Z-90

Valid Michigan

N16RX is a Cameron Balloons Z-90, a balloon with no engine, built in 2016. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Michigan Hot Air Adventures, a corporation in Howell, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 26, 2016.

Aircraft

Maker
Cameron Balloons
Model
Z-90 · all Z-90s and related versions
Serial number
6789
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2016
Transponder code
A0F0E2 (octal 50170342)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 15, 2020
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · April 26, 2016
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01207286

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Michigan Hot Air Adventures
Type
Corporation
Address
1561 Villa View Ln
Howell, MI 48843-8856

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N16RX, 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 Michigan Hot Air Adventures, a corporation, certificate issued April 15, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 26, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6789 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N16RX according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N16RX. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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