Cameron Balloons U S A-315
N69520 is a Cameron Balloons U S A-315, a balloon with no engine, built in 2014. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Napa Valley Balloons INC, a corporation in Napa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 16, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 24, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons U S
- Model
- A-315 · all A-315s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6742
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A94000 (octal 52240000)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 16, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 24, 2014
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01151767
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Napa Valley Balloons INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N69520, 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 February 16, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 24, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6742 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N69520 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T-50 (serial 1479, cancelled December 10, 1959). 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 N69520: Accident on November 14, 2016 at Winters, 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 A315 · operated under 091
The passenger's improper egress from the balloon basket, which resulted in a serious injury.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA082 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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