Aerostar International Inc S-66A
N65850 is an Aerostar International Inc S-66A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1988. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bel Air, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 19, 1995 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 27, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-66A · all S-66As and related versions
- Serial number
- S66A-3023
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1988
- Transponder code
- A8AD92 (octal 52126622)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 19, 1995
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 27, 1988
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00364061
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gerred Michael S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 837
Bel Air, MD 21014-0837
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 N65850, 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 Gerred Michael S, an individual, certificate issued June 19, 1995, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 27, 1988, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S66A-3023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N65850 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Schweizer SGS 2-33A (serial 340, cancelled June 4, 1984). 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 N65850: Accident on August 28, 1982 at Elmira, NY: 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: Schweizer 2-33A · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data