Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A
N6378E is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1992. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Tracy, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2006 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 5, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RAVEN S49A · all RAVEN S49As and related versions
- Serial number
- S49A-3117
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A85B32 (octal 52055462)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 2006
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 5, 1992
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00513902
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lester David V
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1533 Wall St
Tracy, CA 95376-3026
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N6378E, 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 Lester David V, an individual, certificate issued April 6, 2006, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 5, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S49A-3117 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6378E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172 (serial 46478, cancelled June 23, 1970). 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 N6378E: Accident on April 18, 2009 at Tracy, CA: serious injuries, minor 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: Aerostar International INC RAVEN S49A · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from the power lines.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR09CA207 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