Aerostar International Inc S-55A
N5156T is an Aerostar International Inc S-55A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Pure Magic Balloon Team LLC, an LLC in Bristol, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 25, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 4, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-55A · all S-55As and related versions
- Serial number
- S55A-3078
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A6773E (octal 51473476)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 25, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 4, 1999
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00453617
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pure Magic Balloon Team LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 11967 182Nd Ave
Bristol, WI 53104-9667
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5156T, 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 Pure Magic Balloon Team LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 25, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 4, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S55A-3078 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5156T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Champion 7KCAB (serial 9, cancelled August 27, 1990). 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 N5156T: Accident on February 19, 1990 at Ojai, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Champion 7KCAB · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S PERFORMING AEROBATIC MANEUVERS AT A LOW ALTITUDE AND FAILURE TO MAINTAIN ALTITUDE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX90FA094 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
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