Aerostar International Inc S53A
N699WH is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Gladewater, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2013 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 4, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S53A · all S53As and related versions
- Serial number
- S53A-3071
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A94E21 (octal 52247041)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 7, 2013
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 4, 2000
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00855992
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Robey Samuel B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2025 E Lake Dr
Gladewater, TX 75647-9291
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.
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The public federal record on N699WH, 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 Robey Samuel B, an individual, certificate issued August 7, 2013, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 4, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53A-3071 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N699WH according to the deregistered file. [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 N699WH: Accident on May 19, 2005 at Shreveport, LA: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). 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. S53A · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from electrical power lines.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW05LA125 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