Aerostar International Inc S53A
N9046A is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 18, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S53A · all S53As and related versions
- Serial number
- S53A-3036
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- AC8133 (octal 53100463)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 1, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 1, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 18, 1999
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00723647
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gulson James
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6 E Twin Oaks Est
Sioux Falls, SD 57105-7015
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9046A, 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 Gulson James, an individual, certificate issued May 1, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 18, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53A-3036 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9046A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 47G-2 (serial 6658, cancelled April 2, 1993); Cessna 170B (serial 18805, cancelled February 23, 1971). 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 N9046A: Accident on July 25, 1983 at Cumberland, KY: minor 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: Bell 47G-2 · 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
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