Aerostar International Inc S53A
N52658 is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Decatur, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 14, 2000 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 31, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S53A · all S53As and related versions
- Serial number
- S53A-3075
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A6A260 (octal 51521140)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 14, 2000
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 31, 2000
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00425660
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wahl Mike
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1225 Regency Blvd SE
Decatur, AL 35601-4599
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N52658, 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 Wahl Mike, an individual, certificate issued June 14, 2000, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 31, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53A-3075 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N52658 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 177RG (serial 177RG1234, cancelled January 31, 1995). 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 N52658: Accident on June 14, 1992 at Gunnison, CO: no 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 177RG · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL. FACTOR(S) INCLUDED: FUEL EXHAUSTION AND THE MISJUDGING OF FUEL CONSUMPTION CALCULATIONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN92LA059 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