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N5278T

Aerostar International Inc S53A

Valid Minnesota

N5278T is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Liberty Bell Project INC, a corporation in Rochester, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 25, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S53A
Serial number
S53A-3077
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A6A671 (octal 51523161)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 9, 2020
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 29, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · February 25, 2002
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00194137

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Liberty Bell Project INC
Type
Corporation
Address
412 33Rd St SW
Rochester, MN 55902-1222

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

1993-02-10Piper PA-34-200 · 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