Cameron Balloons Us ZL-70
N31010 is a Cameron Balloons Us ZL-70, a balloon with no engine, built in 2024. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Champaign, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 30, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- ZL-70 · all ZL-70s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6967
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A34965 (octal 50644545)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 19, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 19, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 30, 2024
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01398094
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hartman Theodore Melvin Ide
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2807 Heritage Dr
Champaign, IL 61822-2380
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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 4
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N31010, 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 Hartman Theodore Melvin Ide, an individual, certificate issued February 19, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 30, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6967 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N31010 was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Cessna 208B (serial 208B5174, cancelled September 22, 2015); Piper Aircraft Inc PA46-500TP (serial 4697315, cancelled October 5, 2007); Piper PA32-301FT (serial 3232023, cancelled June 22, 2004). 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 N31010: Accident on October 9, 2024 at Rio Rancho, NM: serious injuries, minor damage. 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: Cameron Balloons US ZL-70 · operated under 091
The pilot’s inability to maintain clearance from a tree during the landing approach due to a gusting wind shift.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR25LA081 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