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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Cameron Balloons Us N-105
N8054U is a Cameron Balloons Us N-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Freedom Flight INC, a corporation in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2002 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 25, 2001.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- N-105 · all N-105s 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 Us N-105 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
- 6285
- 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
- 6
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- AAF767 (octal 52573547)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 4, 2002
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 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 · May 25, 2001
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00853754
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Freedom Flight INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 1052
Saint Cloud, MN 56302-1052
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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 1
Connections how N8054U links to the rest of the register
- Cameron Balloons Us N-105 27 registered
- Cameron Balloons Us 715 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Freedom Flight INC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Saint Cloud, MN 51 aircraft registered in this town
- Minnesota 6,968 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Cameron Balloons Us N-105 12 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N8054U, 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 Freedom Flight INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 4, 2002, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 25, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6285 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8054U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech F33A (serial CE1662, cancelled July 11, 1997). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8054U. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data