Aerostar International Inc S-57A
N5242M is an Aerostar International Inc S-57A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2005. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in St Paul, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 3, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 31, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-57A · all S-57As and related versions
- Serial number
- S57A-3245
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A69A74 (octal 51515164)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 3, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · August 31, 2005
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00174989
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mroz Steve
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 995 Stonecastle Dr
St Paul, MO 63366-4764
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N5242M, 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 Mroz Steve, an individual, certificate issued October 3, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 31, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57A-3245 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5242M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15284507, cancelled January 22, 1999); Taylorcraft BC12D-85 (serial 10542, cancelled August 23, 1974). 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 N5242M. 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