Cameron Balloons A-315
N65400 is a Cameron Balloons A-315, a balloon with no engine. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Napa Valley Balloons INC, a corporation in Napa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2010 and expires on March 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons
- Model
- A-315 · all A-315s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6596
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A89E07 (octal 52117007)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2010
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01054219
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Napa Valley Balloons INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4086 Byway E
Napa, CA 94558-2289
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N65400, 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 Napa Valley Balloons INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 26, 2010, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6596 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N65400 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172S (serial 172S9735, cancelled February 25, 2005); Cessna 152 (serial 15281528, cancelled December 20, 1999). 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 N65400: Accident on November 13, 2011 at Vacaville, CA: serious injuries. 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 A-315 · operated under 091
The balloon’s encounter with increased wind, which resulted in a hard landing and passenger injury.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR12CA035 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