Aerostar International Inc S-51A
N5284J is an Aerostar International Inc S-51A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in De Witt, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 1, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-51A · all S-51As and related versions
- Serial number
- S51A-3015
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A6A993 (octal 51524623)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 16, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · February 1, 2001
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00263624
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Young Carl E
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 2253 290Th Ave
De Witt, IA 52742-9243 - Co-owners
- Hanson Gregory K
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N5284J, 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 Young Carl E, a co-owned, certificate issued September 16, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 1, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S51A-3015 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5284J according to the deregistered file. [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 N5284J. 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