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N5003F

Aerostar International Inc S53A

Valid New York

N5003F is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Wellsville, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 12, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S53A · all S53As and related versions
Serial number
S53A-3053
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1998
Transponder code
A63CB7 (octal 51436267)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 11, 2018
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · November 12, 1998
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00913876

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bender Susanne R
Type
Individual
Address
3520 Riverside Dr
Wellsville, NY 14895-9505

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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

1992-02-13Bell 206B · exported to Chile · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5003F, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Bender Susanne R, an individual, certificate issued July 11, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 12, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53A-3053 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5003F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 2445, cancelled February 13, 1992). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5003F. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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