Aerostar International Inc S53A
N5236R is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2005. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Rochester, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 2, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S53A · all S53As and related versions
- Serial number
- S53A-3091
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A6974D (octal 51513515)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 2, 2005
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00169429
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lesmeister Michael A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 670 28Th St SE Apt 150
Rochester, MN 55904-6851
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5236R, 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 Lesmeister Michael A, an individual, certificate issued July 31, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 2, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53A-3091 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5236R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17263450, cancelled October 21, 1998). 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 N5236R: Accident on March 21, 2024 at Rochester, MN: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: Aerostar International INC S53A · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from power lines while landing in a field.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA139 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