Aerostar International Inc SP I
N87SB is an Aerostar International Inc SP I, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Friends Of Smokey The Bear Balloon, a corporation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 9, 1993 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 14, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- SP I
- Serial number
- SPI-3001
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- ABF58F (octal 52772617)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 9, 1993
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 14, 1993
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00984462
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Friends Of Smokey The Bear Balloon
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 9010 Cordova Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87112-1226
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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 N87SB, 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 Friends Of Smokey The Bear Balloon, a corporation, certificate issued November 9, 1993, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 14, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SPI-3001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N87SB 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 N87SB: Accident on October 10, 2004 at Albuquerque, NM: no injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerostar SP-1 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain clearance with the radio tower. Contributing factors were the pilot's improper compensation for the variable wind conditions.
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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