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N4051K

Cameron Balloons Us C-100

N4051K is a Cameron Balloons Us C-100, a balloon with no engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Salient Innovations INC, a corporation in Sandia Park, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 12, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Cameron Balloons Us
Model
C-100 · all C-100s and related versions
Serial number
6483
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
2007
Transponder code
A4C1B9 (octal 51140671)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 10, 2021
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · April 12, 2007
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00312009

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Salient Innovations INC
Type
Corporation
Address
2 Lakeview Cir
Sandia Park, NM 87047-9372

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 3

2002-07-23Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA · exported to Australia · Valid registration
1953-12-29North American NAVION · Valid registration
—Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N4051K, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Salient Innovations INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 10, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 12, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6483 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4051K was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 1756, cancelled July 23, 2002); North American NAVION (serial NAV-4-1051, cancelled December 29, 1953); Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 (serial 7944, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4051K. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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