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N7131N

Aerostar International Inc S53A

Valid Iowa

N7131N is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1995. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in De Witt, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 2, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 22, 1995.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S53A · all S53As and related versions
Serial number
S53A-3012
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1995
Transponder code
A989BA (octal 52304672)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 2, 2016
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 22, 1995
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00255472

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Young Carl E
Type
Co-owned
Address
2253 290Th Ave
De Witt, IA 52742-9243
Co-owners
Hanson Gregory K

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 1

1990-07-03Bell 206B · exported to South Africa · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N7131N, 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 Young Carl E, a co-owned, certificate issued August 2, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 22, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53A-3012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N7131N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 4106, cancelled July 3, 1990). 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 N7131N. 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