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N9539G

Cameron Balloons Us O-77

Valid Iowa

N9539G is a Cameron Balloons Us O-77, a balloon with no engine, built in 1990. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Ottumwa, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 19, 2002 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 2, 1990.

Aircraft

Maker
Cameron Balloons Us
Model
O-77 · all O-77s and related versions
Serial number
5585
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
1990
Transponder code
AD4366 (octal 53241546)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 19, 2002
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 2, 1990
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00174731

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Miller Edward J
Type
Co-owned
Address
18336 Bluegrass Rd
Ottumwa, IA 52501-8599
Co-owners
Miller Debra K

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

—Lockheed C-130A · B

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N9539G, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Miller Edward J, a co-owned, certificate issued June 19, 2002, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 2, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5585 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9539G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed C-130A (serial 182A3224, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N9539G: Accident on September 16, 2007 at Creston, IA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 27, 1992 at North Omaha, NE: serious injuries. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 2

CHI07CA300Accident on September 16, 2007 at Creston, IA: serious injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cameron Balloons O-77 · operated under 091

The pilot's inadvertent flight into adverse (high wind) weather conditions, which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing to the accident was the high wind encountered during the balloon flight and the barbed-wire fence.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CHI92LA293Accident on September 27, 1992 at North Omaha, NE: serious injuries.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cameron O-77 · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S ABRUPT TOUCHDOWN DURING A BALLOON LANDING. A RELATED FACTOR IS THE UNSUITABLE TERRAIN SELECTED.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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