Aerostar International Inc WEST 1
N5292M is an Aerostar International Inc WEST 1, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Prairie Sky INC, a corporation in Custer, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- WEST 1
- Serial number
- S46A0001
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6AD07 (octal 51526407)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 3, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00085720
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Prairie Sky INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 747 Mount Rushmore Rd
Custer, SD 57730-1638
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
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The public federal record on N5292M, 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 Prairie Sky INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 3, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S46A0001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5292M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15284515, cancelled March 6, 1991). 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 N5292M: Accident on August 3, 1989 at York, SC: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Cessna 152 · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE AIRSPEED, WHICH RESULTED IN A STALL. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: EXCESSIVE WORKLOAD (TASK OVERLOAD) AND DIVERTED ATTENTION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI89FA157 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
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