Cameron Balloons Z-90
N982ZS is a Cameron Balloons Z-90, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mccook, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2012 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 4, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons
- Model
- Z-90 · all Z-90s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6198
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- ADB4E2 (octal 53332342)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 9, 2012
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 4, 1998
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00653846
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.
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The public federal record on N982ZS, 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 January 9, 2012, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 4, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6198 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N982ZS 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 N982ZS: Accident on September 4, 2016 at Morrill, NE: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Cameron Z90 · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper inflight fuel management, which resulted in fuel exhaustion and an inability to avoid contact with power lines.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN16LA352 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