Cameron Balloons Us Z-77
N699DF is a Cameron Balloons Us Z-77, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Judson, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- Z-77 · all Z-77s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6601
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A94C76 (octal 52246166)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01056512
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- James Richard
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 67
Judson, TX 75660-0067
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.
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The public federal record on N699DF, 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 James Richard, an individual, certificate issued January 30, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6601 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N699DF 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]
1 NTSB record under N699DF: Accident on February 28, 2026 at East Mountain, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 Balloons US Z-77 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26LA129 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data