Aerostar International Inc S-60A
N6517X is an Aerostar International Inc S-60A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1987. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Adventure With Altitude Ballooning LLC, an LLC in Poughkeepsie, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2015 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 1, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-60A · all S-60As and related versions
- Serial number
- S60A-3062
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A893D4 (octal 52111724)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 2015
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 1, 1987
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00375450
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Adventure With Altitude Ballooning LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7 Yates Ave
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-1044
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N6517X, 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 Adventure With Altitude Ballooning LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 23, 2015, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 1, 1987, consistent with the 1987 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S60A-3062 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6517X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna U206G (serial U20605933, cancelled May 19, 1981). 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 N6517X: Accident on May 23, 2015 at Lagrangeville, NY: serious injuries. 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 S-60A · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to conduct a landing to a field in high wind conditions, which resulted in a hard landing and subsequent injury to a passenger.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA15CA226 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