Aerostar International Inc S-57A
N71072 is an Aerostar International Inc S-57A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1995. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Sparta, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 1999 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 18, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-57A · all S-57As and related versions
- Serial number
- S57A-3180
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A97F75 (octal 52277565)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 16, 1999
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 18, 1995
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00216141
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Matney Dallas L
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 871 Quarry Rd
Sparta, MO 65753-9196 - Co-owners
- Matney Janet L
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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 N71072, 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 Matney Dallas L, a co-owned, certificate issued April 16, 1999, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 18, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57A-3180 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N71072 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 N71072: Accident on May 28, 2005 at Sparta, MO: serious injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]
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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 S-57A · operated under 091
The pilot's inability to maintain a proper descent rate due to the wind gust resulting in a hard landing. Contributing factors were the wind gust and the tree struck during the landing.
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
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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