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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Cameron Balloons Z-90
N80506 is a Cameron Balloons Z-90, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Los Lunas, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 19, 2003. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons
- Model
- Z-90 · all Z-90s and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Cameron Balloons Z-90 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 6297
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AAF6E7 (octal 52573347)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 19, 2003
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00373927
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Griego Brandon K
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 12 Benito Loop
Los Lunas, NM 87031
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 1
Earlier use of this number 3
Connections how N80506 links to the rest of the register
- Cameron Balloons Z-90 69 registered
- Cameron Balloons 208 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Los Lunas, NM 118 aircraft registered in this town
- Mid Valley Airpark · E98
- New Mexico 3,108 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N80506.json.
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The public federal record on N80506, 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 Griego Brandon K, an individual, certificate issued March 28, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6297 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N80506 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 1173, cancelled December 3, 1996); Cessna 172M (serial 17266625, cancelled February 4, 1982); Globe GC-1A (serial 09, cancelled February 23, 1949). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 14, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N80506. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data