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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Cameron Balloons Us V-77
N3987B is a Cameron Balloons Us V-77, a balloon with no engine, built in 1991. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Manchester By Sea, Massachusetts. The FAA lists the registration as "first notice for registration renewal" (certificate issued April 24, 1991). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 3, 1991.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- V-77 · all V-77s 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 V-77 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
- 5674
- 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
- 4
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A4A3D0 (octal 51121720)
Registration
- Status
- First notice for registration renewalFAA registration status code 25 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 24, 1991
- Expires
- January 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 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 · April 3, 1991
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00205211
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bildner James L
- 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
- 5 Boardman Ave
Manchester By Sea, MA 01944
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N3987B links to the rest of the register
- Cameron Balloons Us V-77 49 registered
- Cameron Balloons Us 715 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Manchester By Sea, MA 1 aircraft registered in this town
- Massachusetts 2,645 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Cameron Balloons Us V-77 12 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N3987B, 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.
Registration status is "First notice for registration renewal". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 3, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5674 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3987B 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 N3987B. 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