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N5271E

Aerostar International Inc S-77A

Valid Colorado

N5271E is an Aerostar International Inc S-77A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Camelot Balloons, a corporation in Basalt, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 2000 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 30, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S-77A · all S-77As and related versions
Serial number
S77A-3033
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
9
Year built
2000
Transponder code
A6A56F (octal 51522557)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 27, 2000
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · June 30, 2000
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00825820

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Camelot Balloons
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 3048
Basalt, CO 81621-3048

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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

1993-04-23Cessna 180B · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N5271E, 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 Camelot Balloons, a corporation, certificate issued October 27, 2000, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 30, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S77A-3033 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5271E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180B (serial 50571, cancelled April 23, 1993). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5271E: Accident on November 7, 1982 at Near Irwin, ID: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

SEA83FYA01Accident on November 7, 1982 at Near Irwin, ID: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 50571

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180B · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA83FYA01 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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