{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2010-06-10","city":"SELLERSBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"019","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2027-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-24","maker":"Cameron Balloons Us","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CAMERON BALLOONS US","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1880302","mode_s_code":"52107533","mode_s_hex":"A88F5B","model":"Z-77","n_number":"N6502C","name":"IMAGES ALOFT INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"BLACKSBURG","damage":"SUBS","date":"1986-03-10","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"BFO86FID04","probable_cause":"","registration":"N6502C","state":"VA","summary":"Accident on March 10, 1986 at Blacksburg, VA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N6502C is a Cameron Balloons Us Z-77, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Images Aloft INC, a corporation in Sellersburg, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2010 and expires on October 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Images Aloft INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 10, 2010, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6576 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N6502C was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cessna 210N (serial 21063904, cancelled September 11, 2006); Piper PA-28-161 (serial 28-7816429, cancelled September 12, 1978); Lockheed 1049H-82 (serial 4164, cancelled December 27, 1967). 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 N6502C: Accident on March 10, 1986 at Blacksburg, VA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"6576","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2012 PERRY CROSSING RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01047907","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6502C","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"471729344"}