{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2013-03-18","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-07-16","city":"","country_code":"","county_code":"","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":"2033-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-16","maker":"Cameron Balloons Us","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CAMERON BALLOONS US","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1880117","mode_s_code":"52113734","mode_s_hex":"A897DC","model":"A-400","n_number":"N65298","name":"","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Napa","damage":"SUBS","date":"2013-12-29","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR14CA097","probable_cause":"Failure to maintain clearance from obstacles during a descent that resulted in an inadvertent collision with a pole.","registration":"N65298","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on December 29, 2013 at Napa, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N65298 is a Cameron Balloons Us A-400, a balloon with no engine, built in 2013. It has 12 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 18, 2013.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued July 16, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 18, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6694 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N65298 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172R (serial 17281239, cancelled May 25, 2005). 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 N65298: Accident on December 29, 2013 at Napa, CA: 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":"","region_code":"","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":12,"serial_number":"6694","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01113106","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N65298","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2013,"zip":""}