Aerostar International Inc S-49A
N7146C is an Aerostar International Inc S-49A, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Rochester, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 21, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-49A
- Serial number
- S49A-3204
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A98E16 (octal 52307026)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 11, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 11, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 21, 1995
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00195761
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lesmeister Michael A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 670 28Th St SE Apt 150
Rochester, MN 55904-6851
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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 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N7146C, 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 Lesmeister Michael A, an individual, certificate issued July 11, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S49A-3204 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7146C was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Beech B200 (serial BB-1076, cancelled April 27, 1990); Piper PA-32R-300 (serial 32R7680041, cancelled September 29, 1989); Beech T-34A (serial G27, cancelled July 12, 1965). 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 N7146C: Accident on June 26, 1987 at Tannersville, NY: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32R-300 · operated under 135
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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