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N53177

Aerostar International Inc RX-7

N53177 is an Aerostar International Inc RX-7, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Dakota Balloons LLC, an LLC in Hot Spring, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 6, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RX-7
Serial number
RX7-3346
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A6B791 (octal 51533621)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 25, 2025
Expires
September 30, 2032
Last FAA action
September 25, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · June 6, 2002
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00167341

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dakota Balloons LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1400 Highway 71 S
Hot Spring, SD 57747

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 2

1991-05-03Cessna A188B · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1957-01-04Boeing A75N1 · exported to Mexico · Valid registration

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