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N51761

Aerostar International Inc S53A

N51761 is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Aeronautical Opportunities LLC, an LLC in Taos, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 1, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S53A · all S53As and related versions
Serial number
S53A-3067
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A67EB4 (octal 51477264)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 20, 2023
Expires
May 31, 2030
Last FAA action
May 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · July 1, 1999
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00055802

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Aeronautical Opportunities LLC
Type
LLC
Address
PO Box 3513
Taos, NM 87571-3513

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 2

1995-02-08Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C · exported to Australia · Valid registration
1948-12-03Cessna T-50 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N51761, 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 Aeronautical Opportunities LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 20, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 1, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53A-3067 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N51761 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C (serial 1146, cancelled February 8, 1995); Cessna T-50 (serial 5702, cancelled December 3, 1948). 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 N51761. 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