Aerostar International Inc S81A
N5069B is an Aerostar International Inc S81A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2003. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Flying Circus INC, a corporation in Custer, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 9, 2015 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 11, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S81A
- Serial number
- S81A-3016
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A653CF (octal 51451717)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 9, 2015
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 11, 2003
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00030499
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying Circus INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 210
Custer, SD 57730-0210
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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 N5069B, 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 Flying Circus INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 9, 2015, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 11, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S81A-3016 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5069B 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]
1 NTSB record under N5069B: Accident on July 17, 2007 at Custer, SD: serious injuries. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerostar International Inc. S81A · operated under 091
The high wind during landing. Contributing to the accident was the encounter with adverse weather during the flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI07LA317 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data