Aerostar International Inc S-77A
N52461 is an Aerostar International Inc S-77A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Back Country Ballooning LLC, an LLC in Tres Piedras, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 21, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-77A
- Serial number
- S77A-3031
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A69B0E (octal 51515416)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 7, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 21, 2000
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00113613
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Back Country Ballooning LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 70 Calle De Canerio
Tres Piedras, NM 87577
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
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The public federal record on N52461, 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 Back Country Ballooning LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 7, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 21, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S77A-3031 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N52461 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17274532, cancelled January 24, 1989); Cessna 182P (serial 18262625, cancelled April 1, 1974); Piper J3C-65 (serial 10326, cancelled January 21, 1954). 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 N52461: Accident on June 3, 2003 at Cottage Grove, MN: serious injuries. Details below. [4]
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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 S-77A · operated under 091
The inadequate touchdown by the pilot.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI03LA147 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data