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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Cameron 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- N-90 · all N-90s 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 N-90 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
- 6126
- 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
- 4
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A6B415 (octal 51532025)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 31, 2007
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- 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 · July 31, 1997
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00946661
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Niemi Matthew
- 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
- 11237 e Condensery Rd
Carson City, MI 48811-9579 - Co-owners
- Niemi Lainie
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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 N5309W links to the rest of the register
- Cameron Balloons Us N-90 28 registered
- Cameron Balloons Us 715 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Carson City, MI 8 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,231 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Cameron Balloons Us N-90 12 supplemental type certificates
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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).
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data