Aerostar International Inc S-57S
N90399 is an Aerostar International Inc S-57S, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Kokopelli Aviation LLC, an LLC in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 21, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-57S · all S-57Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- S57S-3004
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AC7E06 (octal 53077006)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2017
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 21, 1997
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00336611
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kokopelli Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 6100 N Camino Arturo
Tucson, AZ 85718-2802
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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 N90399, 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 Kokopelli Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 28, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 21, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57S-3004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N90399 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Smith AEROSTAR 600 (serial 600226096, cancelled May 18, 1994). 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 N90399: Accident on March 3, 1993 at Panama City, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Smith, Ted Aerostar AEROSTAR 600 · operated under 135
THE PILOT'S POORLY PLANNED APPROACH TO THE RUNWAY FOLLOWING AN INSTRUMENT APPROACH RESULTING IN A LOSS OF CONTROL.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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