Aerostar International Inc S53A
N5278T is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Liberty Bell Project INC, a corporation in Rochester, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 25, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S53A · all S53As and related versions
- Serial number
- S53A-3077
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A6A671 (octal 51523161)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 9, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · February 25, 2002
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00194137
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Liberty Bell Project INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 412 33Rd St SW
Rochester, MN 55902-1222
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N5278T, 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 Liberty Bell Project INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 9, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 25, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53A-3077 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5278T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-200 (serial 347250238, cancelled February 10, 1993). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5278T. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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