Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A
N46KS is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Polk City, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2019 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 22, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RAVEN S49A · all RAVEN S49As and related versions
- Serial number
- S49A-3178
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- A59834 (octal 51314064)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 6, 2019
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 22, 1993
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00594652
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carlton Robert D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 533 Edgewater Dr
Polk City, FL 33868-6704
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N46KS, 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 Carlton Robert D, an individual, certificate issued August 6, 2019, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 22, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S49A-3178 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N46KS according to the deregistered file. [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 N46KS. 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