{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2023-05-22","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-12-17","city":"BIRMINGHAM","country_code":"US","county_code":"125","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-12-17","maker":"Cameron Balloons U S","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CAMERON BALLOONS U S","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1880313","mode_s_code":"51767204","mode_s_hex":"A7EE84","model":"XT-60","n_number":"N61XT","name":"MCKENZIE DAWN","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Plato Center","damage":"SUBS","date":"2011-11-20","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CEN12FA073","probable_cause":"The noncertificated pilot\u2019s decision to fly the airplane without receiving any flight instruction in the airplane, which resulted in his failure to maintain sufficient airspeed during takeoff and the subsequent aerodynamic stall.","registration":"N61XT","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on November 20, 2011 at Plato Center, IL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N61XT is a Cameron Balloons U S XT-60, a balloon with no engine, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Birmingham, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 22, 2023.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mckenzie Dawn, an individual, certificate issued December 17, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated May 22, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6993 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N61XT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Skykits Corp SAVANNAH VGW (serial 10-03-51-905, cancelled August 29, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N61XT: Accident on November 20, 2011 at Plato Center, IL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"6993","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2123 WINDEMERE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01394474","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N61XT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2023,"zip":"480097516"}