Aerostar International Inc S57H
N5213B is an Aerostar International Inc S57H, a balloon with no engine, built in 2004. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Saint Marys, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 27, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S57H · all S57Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- S57H-3009
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A68F68 (octal 51507550)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 21, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 27, 2004
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00112479
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mccullough Kyle S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2
Saint Marys, IA 50241-0002
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5213B, 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 Mccullough Kyle S, an individual, certificate issued July 21, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 27, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57H-3009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5213B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15283804, cancelled March 14, 2000); Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20 (serial 1076, cancelled February 20, 1957). 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 N5213B: Accident on November 13, 1998 at Monticello, IN: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Cessna 152 · operated under 091
low altitude stall and an ostentatious display by the pilot. Factors associated with this accident were the performance of a low altitude maneuver and an abrupt pullup by the pilot.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99LA027 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