Aerostar International Inc S-60A
N5258D is an Aerostar International Inc S-60A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Lawrenceville, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 18, 2000 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 29, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-60A · all S-60As and related versions
- Serial number
- S60A-3258
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A69EF5 (octal 51517365)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 18, 2000
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 29, 1999
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00296092
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ferrall Richard D
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1828 Rosedown Ct
Lawrenceville, GA 30043-3031 - Co-owners
- Ferrall Deborah
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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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5258D, 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 Ferrall Richard D, a co-owned, certificate issued April 18, 2000, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 29, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S60A-3258 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5258D was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17272476, cancelled April 1, 1993); Cessna 180A (serial 50156, cancelled February 26, 1958). 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 N5258D: Accident on December 26, 1990 at Yucca Valley, CA: 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: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER USE OF THE FLAPS. CONTRIBUTING TO THIS ACCIDENT WAS THE LOSS OF CONTROL DURING TAILWIND LANDING, AND HIS TAILWIND AND THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE INFLIGHT PLANNING.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX91LA060 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