Cameron Balloons U S A-300
N4457E is a Cameron Balloons U S A-300, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 12 seats. It is registered to an individual in Beaumont, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 24, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons U S
- Model
- A-300 · all A-300s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6228
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A56082 (octal 51260202)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 9, 2019
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 24, 2000
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00925832
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnson Durwood D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5455 Ohio St
Beaumont, TX 77705-6211
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4457E, 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 Johnson Durwood D, an individual, certificate issued January 9, 2019, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 24, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6228 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4457E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC7196, cancelled April 13, 1950); Piper PA-38-112 (serial 3878A0612, cancelled date not given). 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 N4457E: Accident on December 31, 1983 at Floyd, IA: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). 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: Piper PA-38-112 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC84FA049 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