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N5317G

Aerostar International Inc S-60S

Valid Texas

N5317G is an Aerostar International Inc S-60S, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 18, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 7, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S-60S · all S-60Ss and related versions
Serial number
S60S-3005
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A6B778 (octal 51533570)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 18, 2023
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
February 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 7, 2002
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00864016

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Robison William Matthew
Type
Co-owned
Address
6844 Trinity Landing Dr N
Fort Worth, TX 76132-3742
Co-owners
Robison Sara Gibbons

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 1

1992-03-31Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N5317G, 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 Robison William Matthew, a co-owned, certificate issued January 18, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 7, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S60S-3005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5317G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1 (serial 617, cancelled March 31, 1992). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5317G: Accident on September 26, 1985 at Merrill Pass, AK: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ANC85FA184Accident on September 26, 1985 at Merrill Pass, AK: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 617

Aircraft on the NTSB record: De Havilland DHC-2 · operated under 135

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC85FA184 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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