Aerostar International Inc RX-7
N53177 is an Aerostar International Inc RX-7, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Dakota Balloons LLC, an LLC in Hot Spring, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 6, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX-7 · all RX-7s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX7-3346
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6B791 (octal 51533621)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 6, 2002
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00167341
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dakota Balloons LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1400 Highway 71 S
Hot Spring, SD 57747
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N53177, 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 Dakota Balloons LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 25, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX7-3346 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N53177 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna A188B (serial 18801666T, cancelled May 3, 1991); Boeing A75N1 (serial 753847, cancelled January 4, 1957). 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 N53177: Accident on May 24, 1986 at Nyssa, OR: no injuries, destroyed. 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 188B · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA86LA133 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