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N5098W

Aerostar International Inc S57H

Valid Iowa

N5098W 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 Orange City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2003 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 5, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S57H · all S57Hs and related versions
Serial number
S57H3007
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A65EE4 (octal 51457344)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 8, 2003
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 23, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · September 5, 2003
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00066819

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dezeeuw Douglas Wayne
Type
Individual
Address
704 1St St SW
Orange City, IA 51041-1200

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 3

1992-11-12Hiller UH-12E · exported to Taiwan · Valid registration
1988-12-27Cessna P210N · N-number assigned but not yet registered
1975-11-18Piper PA-28 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5098W, 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 Dezeeuw Douglas Wayne, an individual, certificate issued November 8, 2003, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 5, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57H3007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5098W was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Hiller UH-12E (serial 5011, cancelled November 12, 1992); Cessna P210N (serial P21000638, cancelled December 27, 1988); Piper PA-28 (serial 28110, cancelled November 18, 1975). 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 N5098W. 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