Aerostar International Inc S57H
N5051U is an Aerostar International Inc S57H, a balloon with no engine, built in 2003. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Brooklyn, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 21, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 29, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S57H · all S57Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- S57H-3002
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A64F11 (octal 51447421)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 21, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 29, 2003
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00045299
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Frackman David
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 11 Saint Charles Pl
Brooklyn, NY 11216-4108
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
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The public federal record on N5051U, 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 Frackman David, an individual, certificate issued May 21, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 29, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57H-3002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5051U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 206 (serial 206-0051, cancelled December 30, 1963). 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 N5051U: Accident on April 5, 1985 at Burns, OR: 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: Bellanca 8GCBC · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data