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N87SB

Aerostar International Inc SP I

N87SB is an Aerostar International Inc SP I, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Friends Of Smokey The Bear Balloon, a corporation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 9, 1993 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 14, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
SP I
Serial number
SPI-3001
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1993
Transponder code
ABF58F (octal 52772617)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 9, 1993
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 14, 1993
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00984462

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Friends Of Smokey The Bear Balloon
Type
Corporation
Address
9010 Cordova Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87112-1226

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.

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