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N63498

Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A

Valid Florida

N63498 is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1991. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Tampa, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 3, 1991.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RAVEN S49A · all RAVEN S49As and related versions
Serial number
S49A-3071
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1991
Transponder code
A8504C (octal 52050114)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 10, 2022
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · June 3, 1991
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00975471

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Vereb Frederick P
Type
Individual
Address
6535 Seafairer Dr
Tampa, FL 33615-2500

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

—Bowers Fly Baby 1-A · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N63498, 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 Vereb Frederick P, an individual, certificate issued November 10, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 3, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S49A-3071 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N63498 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bowers Fly Baby 1-A (serial 6410, cancelled date not given). 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 N63498: Accident on October 16, 1982 at Ephriam, UT: fatal, destroyed (1 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

DEN83FTM01Accident on October 16, 1982 at Ephriam, UT: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 64-10

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bowers Flybaby 1A · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN83FTM01 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