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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Cameron Balloons Us Z-77
N4501F is a Cameron Balloons Us Z-77, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Davenport, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 23, 2013 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 19, 2002.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- Z-77 · all Z-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 Z-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
- 6311
- 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
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A5749D (octal 51272235)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 23, 2013
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- April 22, 2026
- 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 19, 2002
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00843966
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Knuth Paul A
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 528 Golf Vista Cir
Davenport, FL 33837-8495 - Co-owners
- Knuth Dee
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 1
Connections how N4501F links to the rest of the register
- Cameron Balloons Us Z-77 47 registered
- Cameron Balloons Us 713 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Davenport, FL 27 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,712 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Cameron Balloons Us Z-77 2 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N4501F, 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 Knuth Paul A, a co-owned, certificate issued August 23, 2013, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 19, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6311 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4501F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna A150L (serial A1500414, cancelled January 24, 1992). 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 N4501F: Accident on September 24, 1991 at Bellaire, MI: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A150L · operated under 091
THE INSTRUCTOR PILOT'S INADEQUATE SUPERVISION WHICH RESULTED IN AN INAVERENT STALL AND UNCONTROLLED DESCENT INTO TERRAIN. A RELATED FACTOR IS THE INSUFFICIENT ALTITUDE.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data