Cameron Balloons Us N-90
N5309W is a Cameron Balloons Us N-90, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Carson City, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 31, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 31, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- N-90 · all N-90s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6126
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A6B415 (octal 51532025)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 31, 2007
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 31, 1997
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00946661
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Niemi Matthew
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 11237 E Condensery Rd
Carson City, MI 48811-9579 - Co-owners
- Niemi Lainie
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5309W, 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 Niemi Matthew, a co-owned, certificate issued October 31, 2007, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 31, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6126 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5309W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28 (serial 28363, cancelled May 4, 1993). 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 N5309W: Accident on February 23, 1992 at Burlington, IL: fatal, destroyed (1 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-28-160 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AIRCRAFT CONTROL AFTER ENCOUNTERING INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN CRUISE FLIGHT. RELATED FACTORS ARE THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE WEATHER EVALUATION, THE LOW CEILING AND REDUCED VISIBILITY (FOG).
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI92FA095 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