Aerostar International Inc S-57A
N5298B is an Aerostar International Inc S-57A, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Lake Tapps, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 26, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. 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
- S-57A · all S-57As and related versions
- Serial number
- S57A-3231
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6ADCF (octal 51526717)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 26, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 26, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00963827
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dill Cooper M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 4424 185Th Ave E
Lake Tapps, WA 98391-9112 - Co-owners
- Hughes Aidan A
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5298B, 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 Dill Cooper M, a co-owned, certificate issued June 26, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. 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 S57A-3231 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5298B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15283830, cancelled May 13, 1992); Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20 (serial 1160, cancelled May 7, 1965). 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 N5298B: Accident on August 2, 1989 at Fremont, CA: minor 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: Cessna 152 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER INFLIGHT DECISON TO LAND ON AN UNLIGHTED RUNWAY DURING THE HOURS OF DARKNESS. DARKNESS AND THE LACK OF RUNWAY LIGHTS WERE RELATED FACTORS.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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