Grote Matthew R EX RATED 690
N690XR is a Grote Matthew R EX RATED 690, a balloon with no engine, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 26, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grote Matthew R
- Model
- EX RATED 690
- Serial number
- EX6901
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A92CD3 (octal 52226323)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 27, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 26, 2025
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01458948
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grote Matthew R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 580 Casper Rd SE
Rio Rancho, NM 87124-3459
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N690XR, 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 Grote Matthew R, an individual, certificate issued August 27, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 26, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial EX6901 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N690XR 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 N690XR. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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