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N9095T

Aerostar International Inc S53A

N9095T is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Dakota Balloons LLC, an LLC in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 21, 2022 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 23, 1997.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S53A
Serial number
S53A-3041
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1997
Transponder code
AC93B4 (octal 53111664)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 21, 2022
Expires
May 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · December 23, 1997
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00746971

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dakota Balloons LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1100 Highway 71 S
Hot Springs, SD 57747-8801

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

1978-10-11Continental Copters Inc TOMCAT MK6B · exported to Israel · Valid registration
1960-12-07Cessna 182C · exported to Argentina · Valid registration

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