Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S57-A
N63178 is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S57-A, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Branson, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 19, 2017 and expires on April 30, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RAVEN S57-A · all RAVEN S57-As and related versions
- Serial number
- S57A-3115
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A844E1 (octal 52042341)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 19, 2017
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00375191
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Williams Rodney L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 302
Branson, MO 65615-0302
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N63178, 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 Williams Rodney L, an individual, certificate issued April 19, 2017, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57A-3115 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N63178 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150M (serial 15077156, cancelled March 14, 1989). 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]
2 NTSB records under N63178: Accident on June 30, 1988 at Lonsdale, MN: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 26, 1984 at West Bend, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150M · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI88LA146 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150M · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI84LA096 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