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N5305M

Aerostar International Inc S-57A

Valid Arizona

N5305M is an Aerostar International Inc S-57A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2016 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 15, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S-57A · all S-57As and related versions
Serial number
S57A-3232
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2001
Transponder code
A6B380 (octal 51531600)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 14, 2016
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · November 15, 2001
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00283967

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ewer Daniel W
Type
Individual
Address
1790 N Shambala Lane
Tucson, AZ 85743

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

1995-07-27Crawford Samuel J XC2000T · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1982-07-02Cessna 152 · exported to Switzerland · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5305M, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Ewer Daniel W, an individual, certificate issued April 14, 2016, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 15, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57A-3232 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5305M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Crawford Samuel J XC2000T (serial 5023, cancelled July 27, 1995); Cessna 152 (serial 15284522, cancelled July 2, 1982). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5305M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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