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N52461

Aerostar International Inc S-77A

N52461 is an Aerostar International Inc S-77A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Back Country Ballooning LLC, an LLC in Tres Piedras, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 21, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S-77A
Serial number
S77A-3031
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
9
Year built
2000
Transponder code
A69B0E (octal 51515416)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 7, 2026
Expires
September 30, 2033
Last FAA action
September 7, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · April 21, 2000
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00113613

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Back Country Ballooning LLC
Type
LLC
Address
70 Calle De Canerio
Tres Piedras, NM 87577

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 3

1989-01-24Cessna 172P · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1974-04-01Cessna 182P · exported to Portugal · Valid registration
1954-01-21Piper J3C-65 · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data