Cameron Balloons Us A-105
N6565L is a Cameron Balloons Us A-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Oconnell Ballooning LLC, an LLC in Gilberts, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 15, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- A-105 · all A-105s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6646
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A8A616 (octal 52123026)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 12, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 15, 2012
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01089633
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Oconnell Ballooning LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 460 Running Deer Ln
Gilberts, IL 60136-9644
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N6565L, 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 Oconnell Ballooning LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 12, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 15, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6646 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6565L was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15284440, cancelled December 12, 2005); Piper PA-31 (serial 31-487, cancelled April 26, 1974). 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 N6565L: Accident on September 11, 2005 at Lakewood, 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: Cessna 152 · operated under 091
the certified flight instructor's failure to maintain an adequate airspeed resulting in a stall and loss of control. Also causal was the engine's loss of partial power due to inadequate maintenance, worn spark plugs, worn pistons, and broken piston rings.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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