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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Cameron Balloons O-65
N2978J is a Cameron Balloons O-65, a balloon with no engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Bubbles On Ash LLC, an LLC in Tempe, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 7, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 15, 1984.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons
- Model
- O-65 · all O-65s 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 O-65 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
- 5069
- 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
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A312F4 (octal 50611364)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 7, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2025
- 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 · June 15, 1984
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00673343
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bubbles On Ash 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
- 1220 S Ash Ave
Tempe, AZ 85281-5632
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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
Connections how N2978J links to the rest of the register
- Cameron Balloons O-65 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
- Bubbles On Ash LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Tempe, AZ 233 aircraft registered in this town
- Arizona 8,436 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N2978J.json.
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The public federal record on N2978J, 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 Bubbles On Ash LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 7, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. 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 5069 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2978J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150G (serial 15065778, cancelled June 6, 1974). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N2978J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data