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N65576

Cameron Balloons Us A-120

Valid Montana

N65576 is a Cameron Balloons Us A-120, a balloon with no engine, built in 2012. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 15, 2012. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).

Aircraft

Maker
Cameron Balloons Us
Model
A-120 · all A-120s and related versions
Serial number
6650
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
5
Year built
2012
Transponder code
A8A2B9 (octal 52121271)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 30, 2021
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
March 7, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · February 15, 2012
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01081960

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Elkins Justin A
Type
Individual
Address
93 Oakwood Ln
Helena, MT 59601-0381

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

2026-09-28Loan or lien (security agreement)

Earlier use of this number 2

1998-03-06Smith Steven A KITFOX · Sale reported
—Cessna 152 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N65576, 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 Elkins Justin A, an individual, certificate issued October 30, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 15, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6650 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N65576 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Smith Steven A KITFOX (serial 674, cancelled March 6, 1998); Cessna 152 (serial 15285289, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 28, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N65576. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 September 30, 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