Aerostar International Inc S57H
N5233F 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 Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 7, 2005 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 27, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S57H · all S57Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- S57H-3011
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A696DA (octal 51513332)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 7, 2005
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 27, 2005
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00150259
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fenske David W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5608 Whiteman Dr NW
Albuquerque, NM 87120-2139
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N5233F, 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 Fenske David W, an individual, certificate issued March 7, 2005, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 27, 2005, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57H-3011 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5233F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172F (serial 17253294, cancelled May 7, 1981). 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 N5233F. 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 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