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N5315J

West Kay Ann WEST-2

N5315J is a West Kay Ann WEST-2, a balloon with no engine, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Mountain West Aeronautics, a corporation in Custer, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 23, 2025.

Aircraft

Maker
West Kay Ann
Model
WEST-2
Serial number
003
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2025
Transponder code
A6B734 (octal 51533464)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 24, 2025
Expires
September 30, 2032
Last FAA action
September 24, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · January 23, 2025
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01470391

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mountain West Aeronautics
Type
Corporation
Address
12166 Buckhorn Estates Dr
Custer, SD 57730-7274

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

2013-04-08Aerostar International Inc S-57A · Registration expired, pending cancellation

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