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N5266T

Aerostar International Inc S53A

N5266T is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Christensen Balloons LLC, an LLC in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 17, 2009 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 16, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S53A
Serial number
S53A-3073
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2000
Transponder code
A6A274 (octal 51521164)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 17, 2009
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · March 16, 2000
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00435660

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Christensen Balloons LLC
Type
LLC
Address
13118 Lavon Ct
Hot Springs, SD 57747-7120

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 1

1991-05-03Piper PA-28-140 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

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