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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A
N6349Y 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 Sheridan, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 7, 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-3070
- 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
- A85042 (octal 52050102)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 4, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2025
- 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 · May 7, 1991
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00895511
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reiger Virginia J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1190 Delphi Ave
Sheridan, WY 82801-2854
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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
Connections how N6349Y 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
- Sheridan, WY 434 aircraft registered in this town
- Sheridan County · SHR
- Wyoming 3,228 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N6349Y, 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 Reiger Virginia J, an individual, certificate issued March 4, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 7, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S49A-3070 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6349Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-3616, cancelled June 20, 1985). 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 N6349Y. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data