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N9046A

Aerostar International Inc S53A

N9046A is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 18, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S53A
Serial number
S53A-3036
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1999
Transponder code
AC8133 (octal 53100463)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 1, 2024
Expires
May 31, 2031
Last FAA action
May 1, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · January 18, 1999
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00723647

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gulson James
Type
Individual
Address
6 E Twin Oaks Est
Sioux Falls, SD 57105-7015

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

1993-04-02Bell 47G-2 · exported to Peru · Valid registration
1971-02-23Cessna 170B · Valid registration

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