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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Cameron Balloons U S N 120
N6164R is a Cameron Balloons U S N 120, a balloon with no engine, built in 1995. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Four Corners Balloon Rides LLC, an LLC in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 18, 1995.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons U S
- Model
- N 120 · all N 120s 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 U S N 120 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
- 5999
- 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
- 5
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A807FC (octal 52003774)
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 15, 2021
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 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 18, 1995
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00385432
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Four Corners Balloon Rides 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
- 5024 Coyote Way NE
Rio Rancho, NM 87144-0862
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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
Connections how N6164R links to the rest of the register
- Cameron Balloons U S N 120 5 registered
- Cameron Balloons U S 47 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Four Corners Balloon Rides LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Rio Rancho, NM 119 aircraft registered in this town
- New Mexico 3,111 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cameron Balloons U S N 120 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Cameron Balloons U S N 120 10 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N6164R, 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 Four Corners Balloon Rides LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 15, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 18, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5999 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6164R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172RG (serial 172RG0100, cancelled April 21, 1988); Cessna T210F (serial T210-0064, cancelled May 25, 1971). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N6164R. 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 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data