Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S57-A
N3597L is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S57-A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1989. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in University Heights, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 16, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 21, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RAVEN S57-A · all RAVEN S57-As and related versions
- Serial number
- S57A-3073
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- A40994 (octal 51004624)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 16, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 1, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 21, 1989
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00184681
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blackburn Andrew M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 3870 Grenville Rd
University Heights, OH 44118-3776 - Co-owners
- Hamilton Blake A / Sherwin Jordan A
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N3597L, 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 Blackburn Andrew M, a co-owned, certificate issued February 16, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 21, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57A-3073 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3597L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150F (serial 15062397, cancelled May 22, 1973). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3597L. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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