West Kay Ann WEST-2
N5314D is a West Kay Ann WEST-2, a balloon with no engine, built in 2008. 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 February 3, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 8, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- West Kay Ann
- Model
- WEST-2
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A6B70C (octal 51533414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 3, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 12, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 8, 2008
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00470279
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Prairie Sky INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 747 Mount Rushmore Rd
Custer, SD 57730-1638
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N5314D, 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 February 3, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 8, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5314D was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 180A (serial 50212, cancelled April 21, 1958); Cessna 172N (serial 17272511, cancelled date not given). 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 N5314D: Accident on May 22, 1991 at Togiak, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 500-D · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO SECURE THE CARGO PRIOR TO THE FLIGHT. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE ROUGH, UNEVEN TERRAIN.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC91LA060 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