Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A
N6343R is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1991. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Dakota Balloons LLC, an LLC in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 20, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RAVEN S49A · all RAVEN S49As and related versions
- Serial number
- S49A-3047
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A84F69 (octal 52047551)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 3, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 20, 1991
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00905341
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dakota Balloons LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1100 Highway 71 S
Hot Springs, SD 57747-8808
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N6343R, 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 March 3, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 20, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S49A-3047 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6343R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna U206G (serial U20606817, cancelled August 22, 1984); Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-21512, cancelled February 11, 1969). 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 N6343R. 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