Cameron Balloons O-77
N5309Y is a Cameron Balloons O-77, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sterling, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2018 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 6, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons
- Model
- O-77 · all O-77s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6178
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A6B417 (octal 51532027)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 29, 2018
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 6, 2001
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00447201
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stodolski Mark D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6C Jill Ln
Sterling, MA 01564-2632
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 N5309Y, 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 Stodolski Mark D, an individual, certificate issued June 29, 2018, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 6, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6178 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5309Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 272382, cancelled August 26, 1994). 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 N5309Y: Accident on September 20, 1993 at Spencer, IA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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-23-250 · operated under 091
the pilot's to switch fuel tanks which resulted in fuel starvation. A factor related to the accident was the rough terrain on which the airplane was landed.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI93LA375 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