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N5215B

Aerostar International Inc S53A

N5215B 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 Brandon, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 25, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S53A · all S53As and related versions
Serial number
S53A-3068
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A68FAE (octal 51507656)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 27, 2026
Expires
February 28, 2033
Last FAA action
February 27, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · August 25, 1999
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00305912

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Richardson Molly
Type
Individual
Address
48236 265Th St
Brandon, SD 57005-7207

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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

1956-11-29Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20 · exported to France · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5215B, 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 Richardson Molly, an individual, certificate issued February 27, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 25, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53A-3068 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5215B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20 (serial 1078, cancelled November 29, 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 N5215B. 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