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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Cameron Balloons Us C-80
N6769K is a Cameron Balloons Us C-80, a balloon with no engine, built in 2013. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Krause Shawn, a partnership in Zachary, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2014 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 23, 2013.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- C-80 · all C-80s 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 Us C-80 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
- 6715
- 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 · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A8F59F (octal 52172637)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2014
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 23, 2013
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01130974
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Krause Shawn
- Type
- PartnershipFAA type of owner code 2 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 24652 Brian Rd
Zachary, LA 70791-6234 - Co-owners
- Krause Patricia
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N6769K links to the rest of the register
- Cameron Balloons Us C-80 41 registered
- Cameron Balloons Us 715 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Krause Shawn 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Zachary, LA 26 aircraft registered in this town
- Louisiana 3,729 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Cameron Balloons Us C-80 8 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Venturi, loose · 1995-09-05
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The public federal record on N6769K, 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 Krause Shawn, a partnership, certificate issued February 28, 2014, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 23, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6715 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6769K according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N6769K. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data