Aerostar International Inc S-50A
N9043V is an Aerostar International Inc S-50A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Harveys Lake, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2017 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 15, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-50A
- Serial number
- S50A-3004
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AC80DD (octal 53100335)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 2017
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 15, 1997
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00553962
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bulkley James C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1974 Monkey Hollow Rd
Harveys Lake, PA 18618-7813
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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
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The public federal record on N9043V, 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 Bulkley James C, an individual, certificate issued April 13, 2017, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 15, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S50A-3004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9043V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech E-55 (serial TE919, cancelled March 21, 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 N9043V: Accident on September 23, 1986 at Kansas City, MO: 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: Beech E55 · operated under 091
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