Cameron Balloons Us A-400
N6511N is a Cameron Balloons Us A-400, a balloon with no engine, built in 2011. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Balloons Above The Valley, a corporation in Napa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 16, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- A-400 · all A-400s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6615
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A892F9 (octal 52111371)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2011
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 16, 2011
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01063425
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Balloons Above The Valley
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 603 California Blvd
Napa, CA 94559-3131
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N6511N, 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 Balloons Above The Valley, a corporation, certificate issued June 20, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 16, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6615 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6511N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 14-13-3 (serial 1630, cancelled April 5, 2006). 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]
1 NTSB record under N6511N: Accident on May 20, 2005 at Caliente, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 14-13-3 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadvertent encounter with instrument meteorological conditions and failure to maintain adequate terrain clearance, which resulted in controlled flight into the terrain. Contributing factors were the pilots' delayed decision to reverse course, the low clouds which obscured the rising terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX05FA184 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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