Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A
N9021J is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1992. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Murray, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 24, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RAVEN S49A · all RAVEN S49As and related versions
- Serial number
- S49A-3145
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- AC791E (octal 53074436)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 31, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 24, 1992
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00774062
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sorenson Katherine L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5886 S 590 W
Murray, UT 84123-5769
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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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9021J, 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 Sorenson Katherine L, an individual, certificate issued July 31, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 24, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S49A-3145 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9021J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 (serial 0030, cancelled October 26, 1989). 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 N9021J: Accident on January 27, 1983 at Zapata, TX: no injuries, destroyed. 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: Robinson R22 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW83FA100 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
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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