Aerostar International Inc S-71A
N5285M is an Aerostar International Inc S-71A, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Marketing Services INC Of Pueblo, a corporation in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 2005 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 4, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-71A · all S-71As and related versions
- Serial number
- S71A-3023
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6A9B9 (octal 51524671)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 7, 2005
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 30, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 4, 2001
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00243745
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Marketing Services INC Of Pueblo
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 925 S 8Th St
Colorado Springs, CO 80905-7318
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N5285M, 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 Marketing Services INC Of Pueblo, a corporation, certificate issued January 7, 2005, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S71A-3023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5285M 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]
1 NTSB record under N5285M: Accident on February 15, 2003 at Scottsdale, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Aerostar International Inc. S-71A · operated under 091
the pilot's inadequate in-flight decision to cross over four sets of power lines with the existence of a known low fuel state and lack of wind, and failure to maintain altitude/clearance from the power lines during the landing, which resulted in the envelope contacting high voltage power lines.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX03LA099 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