{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2010-08-26","city":"NAPA","country_code":"US","county_code":"055","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":"2028-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-28","maker":"Cameron Balloons","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CAMERON BALLOONS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1880214","mode_s_code":"52117007","mode_s_hex":"A89E07","model":"A-315","n_number":"N65400","name":"NAPA VALLEY BALLOONS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Vacaville","damage":"","date":"2011-11-13","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"WPR12CA035","probable_cause":"The balloon\u2019s encounter with increased wind, which resulted in a hard landing and passenger injury.","registration":"N65400","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on November 13, 2011 at Vacaville, CA: serious injuries.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N65400 is a Cameron Balloons A-315, a balloon with no engine. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Napa Valley Balloons INC, a corporation in Napa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2010 and expires on March 31, 2028. 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 Napa Valley Balloons INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 26, 2010, expires March 31, 2028. 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 6596 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N65400 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172S (serial 172S9735, cancelled February 25, 2005); Cessna 152 (serial 15281528, cancelled December 20, 1999). 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 N65400: Accident on November 13, 2011 at Vacaville, CA: serious injuries. 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":"6596","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4086 BYWAY E","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01054219","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N65400","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"945582289"}