Aerostar International AEROSTAR S53H
N5001J is an Aerostar International AEROSTAR S53H, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Spencer, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 5, 2008 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 30, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International
- Model
- AEROSTAR S53H
- Serial number
- S53H-3004
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A63C74 (octal 51436164)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 5, 2008
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 30, 2002
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00021349
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sielis James A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 80 Greenville St
Spencer, MA 01562-2744 - Co-owners
- Chaffe Richard A
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 N5001J, 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 Sielis James A, a co-owned, certificate issued February 5, 2008, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 30, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53H-3004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5001J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 310R (serial 310R0125, cancelled March 24, 1975). 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 N5001J: Accident on July 8, 2004 at Sioux Falls, SD: no injuries, substantial 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: Aerostar S53H · operated under 091
The pilot's selection of an unsuitable landing area for the balloon and his failure to maintain clearance with the transmission line. A contributing factor was the presence of the transmission line.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI04LA204 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