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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Cameron Balloons ZL-56
N56ZL is a Cameron Balloons ZL-56, a balloon with no engine, built in 2004. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Portland, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 26, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 21, 2004.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons
- Model
- ZL-56
- Serial number
- 6377
- 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
- 1
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A726DB (octal 51623333)
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 26, 2021
- 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 · May 21, 2004
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00099159
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Cameron Mcpherson
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 820 NW 12Th Ave Apt 104
Portland, OR 97209-3043
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N56ZL links to the rest of the register
- Cameron Balloons 208 aircraft on the register
- Portland, OR 545 aircraft registered in this town
- Portland International · PDX
- Portland-Hillsboro Airport · HIO
- Portland-Troutdale Airport · TTD
- Oregon 7,001 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N56ZL, 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 Smith Cameron Mcpherson, an individual, certificate issued October 26, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 21, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6377 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N56ZL according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N56ZL. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 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 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data