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N90448

Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S-55A

Valid Colorado

N90448 is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S-55A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1992. It has 1 seat. It is registered to South Taft Liquor INC, a corporation in Fort Collins, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 1, 1999 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 1, 1992.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RAVEN S-55A · all RAVEN S-55As and related versions
Serial number
S55A-3062
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1992
Transponder code
AC810D (octal 53100415)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 1, 1999
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · October 1, 1992
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00114042

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
South Taft Liquor INC
Type
Corporation
Address
225 Smokey St
Fort Collins, CO 80525-3870

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.

Earlier use of this number 2

1989-09-01Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV · N-number assigned but not yet registered
1962-03-28Douglas C54B-DC · exported to France · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N90448, 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 South Taft Liquor INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 1, 1999, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 1, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S55A-3062 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N90448 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV (serial 20403, cancelled September 1, 1989); Douglas C54B-DC (serial 18360, cancelled March 28, 1962). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N90448. 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 August 27, 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