Aerostar International Inc S-60A
N28282 is an Aerostar International Inc S-60A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1986. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Honeoye Falls, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 1986 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 21, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-60A · all S-60As and related versions
- Serial number
- S60A-3008
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- A2D8F4 (octal 50554364)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 20, 1986
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · February 21, 1986
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00572426
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reichhart Richard B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6870 Rush Lima Road
Honeoye Falls, NY 14472
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N28282, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Reichhart Richard B, an individual, certificate issued May 20, 1986, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 21, 1986, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S60A-3008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N28282 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J4A (serial 4-1085, cancelled February 23, 1956). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N28282: Accident on June 9, 2001 at Mumford, NY: serious injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Raven S60A · operated under 091
The ground handler's failure to follow instructions to release her line during the balloon's unintended ascent, due to panic.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC01LA150 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data