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N65005

Cameron Balloons Z-90

N65005 is a Cameron Balloons Z-90, a balloon with no engine, built in 2010. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Embraceable Blue LLC, an LLC in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 24, 2012 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 5, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
Cameron Balloons
Model
Z-90 · all Z-90s and related versions
Serial number
6577
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2010
Transponder code
A88F30 (octal 52107460)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 24, 2012
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · March 5, 2010
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01045296

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Embraceable Blue LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1944 Cerros Colorados
Santa Fe, NM 87501-8334

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 2

2006-02-01Cessna 172P · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response
1970-08-18Boeing B75N1 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N65005, 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 Embraceable Blue LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 24, 2012, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 5, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6577 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N65005 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17275667, cancelled February 1, 2006); Boeing B75N1 (serial 75-6909, cancelled August 18, 1970). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N65005: Accident on February 18, 2003 at Santa Susana, CA: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX03FA090Accident on February 18, 2003 at Santa Susana, CA: serious injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 17275667

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091

The flight instructor's inadequate in-flight decision to cross mountainous terrain at a inadequate altitude to guarantee terrain clearance.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX03FA090 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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