Aerostar International Inc S-45A
N52811 is an Aerostar International Inc S-45A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Lta Aviation INC, a corporation in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2002 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 28, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-45A
- Serial number
- S45A-3001
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A6A93B (octal 51524473)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 10, 2002
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · November 28, 2000
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00233705
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lta Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 7780 Bainbridge Rd
Chagrin Falls, OH 44023-2100
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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
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The public federal record on N52811, 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 Lta Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 10, 2002, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated November 28, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S45A-3001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N52811 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Sague Terry CHALLENGER II (serial CH20487R0245, cancelled May 17, 1993); Cessna 182P (serial 18262865, cancelled April 7, 1988). 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 N52811: Accident on November 26, 1984 at Sanderson, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 182P · operated under 091
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- 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