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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Cameron 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. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons
- Model
- A-315 · all A-315s and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Cameron Balloons A-315 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 6596
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A89E07 (octal 52117007)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2010
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01054219
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Napa Valley Balloons INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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 1
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N65400 links to the rest of the register
- Cameron Balloons A-315 13 registered
- Cameron Balloons 208 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Napa Valley Balloons INC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Napa, CA 151 aircraft registered in this town
- Napa County · APC
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Cameron Balloons A-315 13 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Valve, failed · 2012-03-08
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N65400.json.
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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]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 2, 2026). [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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data