Aerostar International Inc S53A
N7128D is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1995. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Longview, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 23, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S53A · all S53As and related versions
- Serial number
- S53A-3011
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A986EF (octal 52303357)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 7, 2019
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 23, 1995
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00235472
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Speicher Kerry J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 213 Remington Trl
Longview, TX 75604-0618
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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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N7128D, 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 Speicher Kerry J, an individual, certificate issued January 7, 2019, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 23, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53A-3011 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7128D was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Morris Joe M AVID FLYER SPEEDWING (serial 495, cancelled May 6, 1991); Piper PA-22-150 (serial 22-4988, cancelled January 15, 1963). 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 N7128D: Accident on September 9, 1990 at Kerens, TX: minor injuries, destroyed. 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: Morris AVID FLYER · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR THE WIND CONDITIONS AND THE RESULTANT INADVERTENT STALL. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE GUSTY CROSSWIND CONDITION AND THE PILOT'S EXTENSION OF FULL FLAPERONS BEFORE DESCENDING TO THE PROPER ALTITUDE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW90DPA08 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