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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Cameron Balloons V-56
N290CB is a Cameron Balloons V-56, a balloon with no engine, built in 1979. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Hot Airtime Ballooning LLC, an LLC in Grass Lake, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2008 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 5, 1979.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons
- Model
- V-56 · all V-56s and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Cameron Balloons V-56 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 453
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A2F5AE (octal 50572656)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 12, 2008
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 5, 1979
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00590613
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hot Airtime Ballooning LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 857 Church St
Grass Lake, MI 49240-9362
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N290CB links to the rest of the register
- Cameron Balloons V-56 11 registered
- Cameron Balloons 208 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Hot Airtime Ballooning LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Grass Lake, MI 11 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,226 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Cameron Balloons V-56 3 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N290CB, 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 Hot Airtime Ballooning LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 12, 2008, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 5, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 453 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N290CB 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 N290CB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data