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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Cameron Balloons Us A-180
N3074W is a Cameron Balloons Us A-180, a balloon with no engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Snohomish, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 1996 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 12, 1996.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- A-180 · all A-180s 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 Us A-180 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
- 6024
- 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
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A33C4C (octal 50636114)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 1996
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 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 · February 12, 1996
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00635721
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Woodward Jay
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 20101 72Nd Pl SE
Snohomish, WA 98290-7374 - Co-owners
- Balloon Depot
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N3074W links to the rest of the register
- Cameron Balloons Us A-180 13 registered
- Cameron Balloons Us 712 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Snohomish, WA 119 aircraft registered in this town
- Harvey Field · S43
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cameron Balloons Us A-180 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Cameron Balloons Us A-180 17 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N3074W, 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 Woodward Jay, an individual, certificate issued June 20, 1996, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 12, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6024 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3074W 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 N3074W. 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 October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data