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Cameron Balloons Us Z-105
N40562 is a Cameron Balloons Us Z-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 2007. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Vista, California. 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 23, 2007. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- Z-105 · all Z-105s 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 Z-105 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
- 6490
- 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
- 1
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A4C279 (octal 51141171)
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 23, 2007
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00333419
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chico Timothy
- 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
- 1652 Goodwin Dr
Vista, CA 92084-3033
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 1
Connections how N40562 links to the rest of the register
- Cameron Balloons Us Z-105 48 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
- Vista, CA 37 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,761 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cameron Balloons Us Z-105 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Cameron Balloons Us Z-105 7 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N40562.json.
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The public federal record on N40562, 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 Chico Timothy, an individual, certificate issued July 2, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 23, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6490 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N40562 according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (November 3, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N40562. 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 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data