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N6046M

Cameron Balloons Us N-65

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N6046M is a Cameron Balloons Us N-65, a balloon with no engine, built in 1988. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Go Ballooning LLC, an LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 8, 1988.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cameron Balloons Us
Model
N-65 · all N-65s and related versions
Built of
fabric and wicker
A 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-65 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
5488
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
1988
Transponder code
A7D951 (octal 51754521)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
March 21, 2016
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 21, 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 · December 8, 1988
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00574331

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Go Ballooning LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
6031 Staedem Dr
Anchorage, AK 99504-1623

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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 2

1951-07-27Stinson 108-3 · exported to Canada · Valid registration
—Beech 76 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Connections how N6046M links to the rest of the register

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Owner
Place
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The public federal record on N6046M, 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 Go Ballooning LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 21, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 8, 1988, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5488 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6046M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Stinson 108-3 (serial 108-4046, cancelled July 27, 1951); Beech 76 (serial ME197, cancelled date not given). 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 N6046M. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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