Cameron Balloons Us Z-250
N3100U is a Cameron Balloons Us Z-250, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to US Hot Air Balloon Team, a corporation in Smoketown, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 18, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- Z-250
- Serial number
- 6972
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A3493C (octal 50644474)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 16, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 18, 2023
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01383012
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- US Hot Air Balloon Team
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 4
Smoketown, PA 17576-0004
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3100U, 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 US Hot Air Balloon Team, a corporation, certificate issued August 16, 2025, expires August 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 6972 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3100U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ayres Corporation S2R-T65 (serial T65-005DC, cancelled October 24, 2008). 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]
1 NTSB record under N3100U: Accident on January 7, 1997 at Guaviare: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ayres S2RHG-T65 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain adequate altitude/clearance while maneuvering at a low altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA97GA059 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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