Aerostar International Inc S-60A
N57030 is an Aerostar International Inc S-60A, a balloon with no engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rochester, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 26, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-60A · all S-60As and related versions
- Serial number
- S60A-3180
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A75143 (octal 51650503)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 29, 2019
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 26, 1993
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00334162
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lesmeister Michael A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 659 28Th St SE #103
Rochester, MN 55904
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N57030, 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 Lesmeister Michael A, an individual, certificate issued June 29, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. 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 S60A-3180 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N57030 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Raven S55A (serial S55A612, cancelled January 13, 1993). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N57030. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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