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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A
N545LB is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1991. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Columbine Animal Hospital INC, a corporation in Littleton, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 5, 1991 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 18, 1991.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RAVEN S49A · all RAVEN S49As and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- S49A-3038
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A6EB7B (octal 51565573)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 5, 1991
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 18, 1991
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00665281
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Columbine Animal Hospital INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5546 W Canyon Trl
Littleton, CO 80128-5915
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N545LB links to the rest of the register
- Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A 89 registered
- Aerostar International Inc 825 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Columbine Animal Hospital INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Littleton, CO 119 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,455 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N545LB.json.
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The public federal record on N545LB, 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 Columbine Animal Hospital INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 5, 1991, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 18, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S49A-3038 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N545LB according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N545LB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data