5Y-SIL

Name: Cumulonimbus

Type: Cameron A-140

Serial number: 45

First flown: 11/08/1972, Saltford, Avon

Notes: 221/8/72. First hot-air balloon crossing of the Alps Registration F-BTVO was re-issued to Cameron balloons. C/n 138 Pictured here at the Worlds at Albuquerque in 1973 as G-AZUW Photograph of this balloon was used for the BBAC logo, designed by Christopher Lewis-Smith Donated to the BBM&L

Credit: Nick Burrows