Aerostar International Inc S-60S
N53145 is an Aerostar International Inc S-60S, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to D C G & Assoc INC, a corporation in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 2002 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 23, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-60S · all S-60Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- S60S-3006
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A6B726 (octal 51533446)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 21, 2002
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 23, 2002
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00894147
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- D C G & Assoc INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 700 Gral Trevino Dr SE
Rio Rancho, NM 87124-1204
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N53145, 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 D C G & Assoc INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 21, 2002, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 23, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S60S-3006 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N53145 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17274692, cancelled August 19, 1988); Cessna A188B (serial 18801646T, cancelled June 26, 1974). 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 N53145: Accident on August 25, 1982 at Quinhagak, AK: 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: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC82DAG46 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