Aerostar International Inc S53A
N5266T is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Christensen Balloons LLC, an LLC in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 17, 2009 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 16, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S53A · all S53As and related versions
- Serial number
- S53A-3073
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A6A274 (octal 51521164)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 17, 2009
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 16, 2000
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00435660
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Christensen Balloons LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 13118 Lavon Ct
Hot Springs, SD 57747-7120
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5266T, 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 Christensen Balloons LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 17, 2009, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 16, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53A-3073 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5266T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 287225381, cancelled May 3, 1991). 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 N5266T: Accident on July 2, 1989 at Gasport, NY: minor injuries, destroyed. 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: Piper PA-28-140 · operated under 091
FUEL CONTAMINATION (WATER) AND AN INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT BY THE PILOT, WHICH RESULTED IN THE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC89LA155 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