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N70979

Aerostar International Inc S-60A

Valid Texas

N70979 is an Aerostar International Inc S-60A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Paris, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 24, 1995.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S-60A · all S-60As and related versions
Serial number
S60A-3202
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
2
Year built
1995
Transponder code
A9796C (octal 52274554)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 19, 2023
Expires
May 31, 2030
Last FAA action
May 19, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · March 24, 1995
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00925312

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cato Amie D
Type
Individual
Address
605 Airport Rd
Paris, TX 75462

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 2

1973-05-04Cessna 182M · Valid registration
1949-02-11Piper J3C-65 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N70979, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Cato Amie D, an individual, certificate issued May 19, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 24, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S60A-3202 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N70979 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 182M (serial 18259442, cancelled May 4, 1973); Piper J3C-65 (serial 18006, cancelled February 11, 1949). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N70979. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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