Cameron Balloons Us A-400
N6954Y is a Cameron Balloons Us A-400, a balloon with no engine, built in 2017. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Balloons Above The Valley, a corporation in Napa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 11, 2017 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 9, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- A-400 · all A-400s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6826
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A94044 (octal 52240104)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 11, 2017
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 9, 2017
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01241182
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Balloons Above The Valley
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 603 California Blvd
Napa, CA 94559-3131
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 N6954Y, 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 Balloons Above The Valley, a corporation, certificate issued April 11, 2017, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 9, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6826 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6954Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (6PCLM) (serial 27-4318, cancelled August 18, 1969). 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 N6954Y: Accident on April 1, 2019 at Yountville, 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 A-400 · operated under 091
The pilot’s inability to maintain obstacle clearance after the balloon’s encounter with a downdraft, which resulted in a collision with power lines.
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 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