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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Aerostar International Inc S-57A
N5230R is an Aerostar International Inc S-57A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2006. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Ormond Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 5, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 27, 2006.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-57A · all S-57As and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Aerostar International Inc S-57 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- S57A-3247
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A6967B (octal 51513173)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 5, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 27, 2006
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00222439
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Davenport Richard
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 147 Fairway Dr
Ormond Beach, FL 32176-5475
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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
Connections how N5230R links to the rest of the register
- Aerostar International Inc S-57 63 registered
- Aerostar International Inc 825 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Ormond Beach, FL 207 aircraft registered in this town
- Ormond Beach Municipal · OMN
- Florida 21,702 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Aerostar International Inc S-57 3 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Aerostar International Inc S-57 15 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N5230R, 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 Davenport Richard, an individual, certificate issued October 5, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 27, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57A-3247 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5230R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17263444, cancelled January 3, 2000). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5230R. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data