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N6501G

Cameron Balloons A-315

Valid Arizona

N6501G is a Cameron Balloons A-315, a balloon with no engine, built in 2011. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Airtime Equipment LLC, an LLC in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 15, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 6, 2011.

Aircraft

Maker
Cameron Balloons
Model
A-315 · all A-315s and related versions
Serial number
6616
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
12
Year built
2011
Transponder code
A88F3C (octal 52107474)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 15, 2024
Expires
February 28, 2031
Last FAA action
February 15, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · April 6, 2011
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01063426

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Airtime Equipment LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1837 S Mesa Dr Apt C100
Mesa, AZ 85210

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

2005-02-14Cessna 150K · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N6501G, 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 Airtime Equipment LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 15, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 6, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6616 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6501G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150K (serial 15072001, cancelled February 14, 2005). 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 N6501G: Accident on August 9, 2003 at Anderson, MO: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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

CHI03LA252Accident on August 9, 2003 at Anderson, MO: minor injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 15072001

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150K · operated under 091

A loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion as a result of the pilot becoming lost/disoriented. Also causal was the pilot's inadequate in-flight planning/decision.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI03LA252 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