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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Cameron Balloons A-140
N39987 is a Cameron Balloons A-140, a balloon with no engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to American Balloons LLC, an LLC in Land O Lakes, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 24, 1991.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons
- Model
- A-140
- Serial number
- 2571
- 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
- A4A7C8 (octal 51123710)
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 2, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 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 · May 24, 1991
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00523752
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Balloons 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
- 22933 Bradenwood Ct
Land O Lakes, FL 34639-6920
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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 N39987 links to the rest of the register
- Cameron Balloons 208 aircraft on the register
- American Balloons LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Land O Lakes, FL 40 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,702 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N39987, 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 American Balloons LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 2, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. 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 2571 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N39987 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-44-180 (serial 447995033, cancelled May 16, 1988). 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 N39987. 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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data