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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Aerostar International Inc S-60A
N40253 is an Aerostar International Inc S-60A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 18, 1998.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-60A · all S-60As and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Aerostar International Inc S-60 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- S60A-3253
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A4B732 (octal 51133462)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pendingFAA registration status code R (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- March 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 18, 1998
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00803786
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 250 Hot Springs Blvd Unit 922
Pagosa Springs, CO 81147-4039
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 3
Connections how N40253 links to the rest of the register
- Aerostar International Inc S-60 81 registered
- Aerostar International Inc 825 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pagosa Springs, CO 71 aircraft registered in this town
- Stevens Field · PSO
- Colorado 7,454 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Aerostar International Inc S-60 7 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Aerostar International Inc S-60 18 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N40253, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 18, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S60A-3253 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40253 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Devries Wesley MERLIN (serial A0007, cancelled June 14, 1994); Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 1466, cancelled July 20, 1990); Piper PA-23-250 (serial 277305060, cancelled date not given). 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 N40253. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data