Aerostar International Inc S-49A
N7174R is an Aerostar International Inc S-49A, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Wicked Balloons INC, a corporation in Worcester, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 15, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 21, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-49A · all S-49As and related versions
- Serial number
- S49A-3208
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A99902 (octal 52314402)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 15, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 15, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 21, 1996
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00336251
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wicked Balloons INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 210 Park Ave Pmb 322
Worcester, MA 01609-2246
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N7174R, 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 Wicked Balloons INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 15, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. 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-3208 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7174R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 2821884, cancelled October 29, 1990). 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 N7174R: Accident on March 31, 1990 at Durant, OK: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Piper PA28-140 · operated under 091
PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE AIRSPEED (VSO) AND SUBSEQUENT STALL OF THE AIRCRAFT AT AN ALTITUDE FROM WHICH RECOVERY WAS NOT POSSIBLE. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS THE PILOT'S IMPROPER PROCEDURES FOR THE LANDING APPROACH.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW90LA089 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