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N51777

Aerostar International Inc S53A

N51777 is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2013 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 19, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S53A · all S53As and related versions
Serial number
S53A-3060
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A67EDD (octal 51477335)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 7, 2013
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 19, 1999
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00915712

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wilson Petra
Type
Individual
Address
13115 Wild Turkey Ln
Hot Springs, SD 57747-7345

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 1

1956-08-21Boeing A75N1(PT17) · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N51777, 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 Wilson Petra, an individual, certificate issued August 7, 2013, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 19, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53A-3060 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N51777 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing A75N1(PT17) (serial 75-4505, cancelled August 21, 1956). 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 N51777. 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