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N9031R

Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A

Valid Texas

N9031R is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Corpus Christi, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2001 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 27, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RAVEN S49A · all RAVEN S49As and related versions
Serial number
S49A-3073
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1993
Transponder code
AC7CDC (octal 53076334)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 14, 2001
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
October 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · January 27, 1993
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00874192

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Randolf Ronald D
Type
Individual
Address
721 Chase Dr
Corpus Christi, TX 78412-3038

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N9031R, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Randolf Ronald D, an individual, certificate issued February 14, 2001, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 27, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S49A-3073 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9031R according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N9031R. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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