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N5231J

Aerostar International Inc S-60A

N5231J is an Aerostar International Inc S-60A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Annandale, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 30, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S-60A · all S-60As and related versions
Serial number
S60A-3283
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
2
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A69697 (octal 51513227)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 9, 2024
Expires
September 30, 2031
Last FAA action
September 9, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · January 30, 2003
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00030489

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Loesser Kenneth A
Type
Individual
Address
8 Dogwood Dr
Annandale, NJ 08801-3101

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N5231J, 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 Loesser Kenneth A, an individual, certificate issued September 9, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 30, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S60A-3283 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5231J according to the deregistered file. [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 N5231J. 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