Cameron Balloons Us A-400
N65298 is a Cameron Balloons Us A-400, a balloon with no engine, built in 2013. It has 12 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 18, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- A-400
- Serial number
- 6694
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A897DC (octal 52113734)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 16, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 16, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 18, 2013
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 01113106
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- Individual
- Address
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 N65298, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued July 16, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 18, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6694 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N65298 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172R (serial 17281239, cancelled May 25, 2005). 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 N65298: Accident on December 29, 2013 at Napa, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Cameron Balloons US A-400 · operated under 091
Failure to maintain clearance from obstacles during a descent that resulted in an inadvertent collision with a pole.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR14CA097 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