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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Aerostar International AEROSTAR S53H
N5010L is an Aerostar International AEROSTAR S53H, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Balloon the Rockies INC, a corporation in Park City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 23, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 29, 2002.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International
- Model
- AEROSTAR S53H
- Serial number
- S53H-3005
- 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
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A6400A (octal 51440012)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 23, 2016
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 29, 2023
- 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 · August 29, 2002
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00000269
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Balloon the Rockies INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7749 Whileaway Rd W
Park City, UT 84098-5767
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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
Connections how N5010L links to the rest of the register
- Aerostar International 5 aircraft on the register
- Balloon The Rockies INC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Park City, UT 119 aircraft registered in this town
- Utah 8,350 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N5010L, 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 Balloon the Rockies INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 23, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 29, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53H-3005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5010L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerofab Inc LAKE LA-4-200 (serial 467, cancelled May 6, 1971). 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 N5010L. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data