Aerostar International Inc S-55A
N7153X is an Aerostar International Inc S-55A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Independence, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 18, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 14, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-55A · all S-55As and related versions
- Serial number
- S55A-3072
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A99177 (octal 52310567)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 18, 2009
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 14, 1996
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00755831
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Krieg Fred W
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 784 Stearman St
Independence, OR 97351-9413 - Co-owners
- Krieg Carole L
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N7153X, 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 Krieg Fred W, a co-owned, certificate issued November 18, 2009, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 14, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S55A-3072 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7153X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150A (serial 15059253, cancelled March 27, 1986). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N7153X. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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