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N5074Y

Aerostar International AEROSTAR S53H

N5074Y is an Aerostar International AEROSTAR S53H, a balloon with no engine, built in 2003. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Rancho Cucamonga, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 2, 2003 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 30, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International
Model
AEROSTAR S53H
Serial number
S53H-3008
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A656EC (octal 51453354)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 2, 2003
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · April 30, 2003
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00045649

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wong Dale
Type
Individual
Address
12901 Cherokee Rd
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739-1725

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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

1968-01-04Piper PA-23-250 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N5074Y, 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 Wong Dale, an individual, certificate issued June 2, 2003, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 30, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53H-3008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5074Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-2091, cancelled January 4, 1968). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5074Y: Accident on September 27, 1992 at Waynesville, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

BFO92LA154Accident on September 27, 1992 at Waynesville, OH: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 305A-22301

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 305A · operated under 091

THE CHAFFING OF A LANDING GEAR BRAKE LINE WHICH CAUSED THE LOSS OF HYDRAULIC FLUID AND SUBSEQUENT LOSS OF BRAKING ACTION.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO92LA154 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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