{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2011-05-16","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-06-20","city":"NAPA","country_code":"US","county_code":"055","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":"2027-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Cameron Balloons Us","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CAMERON BALLOONS US","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1880117","mode_s_code":"52111371","mode_s_hex":"A892F9","model":"A-400","n_number":"N6511N","name":"BALLOONS ABOVE THE VALLEY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Caliente","damage":"DEST","date":"2005-05-20","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX05FA184","probable_cause":"The pilot's inadvertent encounter with instrument meteorological conditions and failure to maintain adequate terrain clearance, which resulted in controlled flight into the terrain.  Contributing factors were the pilots' delayed decision to reverse course, the low clouds which obscured the rising terrain.","registration":"N6511N","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on May 20, 2005 at Caliente, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N6511N is a Cameron Balloons Us A-400, a balloon with no engine, built in 2011. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Balloons Above The Valley, a corporation in Napa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 16, 2011.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Balloons Above The Valley, a corporation, certificate issued June 20, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 16, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6615 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N6511N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 14-13-3 (serial 1630, cancelled April 5, 2006). 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 N6511N: Accident on May 20, 2005 at Caliente, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":12,"serial_number":"6615","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"603 CALIFORNIA BLVD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01063425","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6511N","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2011,"zip":"945593131"}