The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily · Carbon Free Flight by 2050
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 2, 2026
N4549J

Cameron Balloons Us N-77

Valid Michigan

N4549J is a Cameron Balloons Us N-77, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 4 seats. It is registered to High Flight Ministries, a corporation in Grass Lake, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 1993 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 12, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Cameron Balloons Us
Model
N-77 · all N-77s and related versions
Serial number
5868
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
1993
Transponder code
A58494 (octal 51302224)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 10, 1993
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 12, 1993
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00134252

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
High Flight Ministries
Type
Corporation
Address
5711 Wolf Lake Rd
Grass Lake, MI 49240

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

1968-03-28Piper PA-28R-180 · exported to Cote D'Ivoire · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N4549J, 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 High Flight Ministries, a corporation, certificate issued June 10, 1993, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 12, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5868 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4549J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-180 (serial 28R-30410, cancelled March 28, 1968). 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 N4549J. 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