Aerostar International Inc S-57A
N7128J is an Aerostar International Inc S-57A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1995. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Summerdale, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 1997 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 9, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-57A · all S-57As and related versions
- Serial number
- S57A-3174
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A986F4 (octal 52303364)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 1997
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- February 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 9, 1995
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00785542
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Helstrom-Hanley Cheri A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 16291 W Indigo Loop
Summerdale, AL 36580-4036
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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 N7128J, 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 Helstrom-Hanley Cheri A, an individual, certificate issued May 12, 1997, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 9, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57A-3174 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7128J 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 N7128J: Accident on October 3, 1990 at Tampa, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech C-90 · operated under 091
THE LACK OF LUBRICATION BY MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL OF THE NOSE LANDING GEAR ACTUATOR.
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- 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