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N5243J

Aerostar International Inc S-77A

Valid Utah

N5243J is an Aerostar International Inc S-77A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Utah Outventures LLC, an LLC in South Salt Lake, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 24, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 20, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S-77A · all S-77As and related versions
Serial number
S77A-3029
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
9
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A69A94 (octal 51515224)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 24, 2022
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · December 20, 1999
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00973543

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Utah Outventures LLC
Type
LLC
Address
3626 S Wendell Dr
South Salt Lake, UT 84115-4627

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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 N5243J, 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 Utah Outventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 24, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 20, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S77A-3029 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5243J 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 N5243J. 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