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N2977X

Cameron Balloons Us V-77

N2977X is a Cameron Balloons Us V-77, a balloon with no engine, built in 1986. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 15, 1995 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 3, 1986.

Aircraft

Maker
Cameron Balloons Us
Model
V-77 · all V-77s and related versions
Serial number
5167
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
1986
Transponder code
A312DE (octal 50611336)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 15, 1995
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · April 3, 1986
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00060656

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Conrad Kenneth J
Type
Individual
Address
10309 Malaguena Ln NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111-1720

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.

Earlier use of this number 2

1983-11-02Bellanca 8KCAB · exported to Argentina · Valid registration
1970-06-05Cessna 177 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N2977X, 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 Conrad Kenneth J, an individual, certificate issued November 15, 1995, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 3, 1986, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5167 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2977X was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bellanca 8KCAB (serial 633-80, cancelled November 2, 1983); Cessna 177 (serial 17700377, cancelled June 5, 1970). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N2977X. 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