Aerostar International Inc S-57A
N5277Z is an Aerostar International Inc S-57A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Garner, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2002 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 29, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-57A · all S-57As and related versions
- Serial number
- S57A-3220
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A6A654 (octal 51523124)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 25, 2002
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 29, 2000
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00265970
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lattin Thomas K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 139 Allie Dr
Garner, NC 27529-6712
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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 N5277Z, 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 Lattin Thomas K, an individual, certificate issued February 25, 2002, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 29, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57A-3220 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5277Z was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Wsk Pzl Mielec M-18 DROMADER (serial 1Z01812, cancelled June 2, 1995); Piper PA-22-108 (serial 228972, cancelled June 25, 1985). 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 N5277Z: Accident on April 9, 1995 at Pine Bluff, AR: serious 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: Wsk Pzl Mielec M-18A DROMADIER · operated under 137
THE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS AND THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN MINIMUM REQUIRED AIRSPEED FOR FLIGHT, RESULTING IN AN INADVERTENT STALL. A FACTOR WAS THE PILOT'S DIVERTED ATTENTION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW95LA162 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