Aerostar International Inc S57H
N5242J is an Aerostar International Inc S57H, a balloon with no engine, built in 2004. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Phoenix Balloon LLC, an LLC in Visalia, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 12, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S57H · all S57Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- S5-7H-3010
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A69A71 (octal 51515161)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 19, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 12, 2005
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00132149
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Phoenix Balloon LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 935 W Kimball Ave
Visalia, CA 93277-6557
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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 N5242J, 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 Phoenix Balloon LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 19, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 12, 2005, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S5-7H-3010 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5242J according to the deregistered file. [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 N5242J. 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