Cameron Balloons Z-65
N8000Z is a Cameron Balloons Z-65, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mccook, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 25, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons
- Model
- Z-65
- Serial number
- 6253
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- AAE44D (octal 52562115)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 16, 2016
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 25, 2000
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00195740
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clapp Royce T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 612 E 11Th St
Mccook, NE 69001-3420
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8000Z, 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 Clapp Royce T, an individual, certificate issued August 16, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 25, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6253 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8000Z was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Knauff-Kenly-Dachille-Welch TERN SAILPLANE (serial KKDWWTM1070, cancelled April 25, 1992); Hawker Siddeley HS 125 600B (serial 256012, cancelled February 23, 1966); Cessna U206 (serial U2060400, cancelled July 15, 1965). 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 N8000Z: Accident on February 15, 1992 at Cottage Grove, OR: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Kna,Ken,Dac,Wel TERN SAILPLANE · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT OF THE SAILPLANE. FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE IMPROPER TOW EQUIPMENT AND LACK OF TOTAL GLIDER EXPERIENCE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA92LA047 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