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N5305E

Cameron Balloons Us N-65

Valid Texas

N5305E is a Cameron Balloons Us N-65, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Maxwell, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 18, 1997 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 26, 1997.

Aircraft

Maker
Cameron Balloons Us
Model
N-65 · all N-65s and related versions
Serial number
6125
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
1997
Transponder code
A6B379 (octal 51531571)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 18, 1997
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · June 26, 1997
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00026661

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Edmiston Fred A
Type
Individual
Address
452 Valley Way Dr
Maxwell, TX 78656-4360

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

1991-07-03Cessna 172N · exported to Germany · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response
1960-04-07Beech K35 · exported to Italy · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5305E, 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 Edmiston Fred A, an individual, certificate issued September 18, 1997, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 26, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6125 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5305E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17271831, cancelled July 3, 1991); Beech K35 (serial D-5767, cancelled April 7, 1960). 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 N5305E. 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