Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A
N63648 is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1991. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Muncie, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2004 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 5, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RAVEN S49A · all RAVEN S49As and related versions
- Serial number
- S49A-3095
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A8570B (octal 52053413)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2004
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 5, 1991
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00563702
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ruster Harold S
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 12000 S County Road 200 E
Muncie, IN 47302-8521 - Co-owners
- Ruster Nancy A
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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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N63648, 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 Ruster Harold S, a co-owned, certificate issued October 7, 2004, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 5, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S49A-3095 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N63648 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17275461, cancelled April 29, 1988); Convair BT-13 (serial 5710, cancelled February 2, 1971). 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]
1 NTSB record under N63648: Accident on October 19, 1982 at Hutchinson, KS: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172PII · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC83LA011 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data