Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A
N90787 is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Rochester, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 31, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RAVEN S49A · all RAVEN S49As and related versions
- Serial number
- S49A-3160
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- AC8CBD (octal 53106275)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 6, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 31, 1993
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00744432
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lesmeister Michael A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 4005 7Th St NW
Rochester, MN 55901-5904 - Co-owners
- Scharf Patrick A
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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 N90787, 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 Lesmeister Michael A, a co-owned, certificate issued March 6, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 31, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S49A-3160 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N90787 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 (serial 0292, cancelled August 6, 1990). 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 N90787: Accident on May 30, 1990 at Corona, CA: 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: Robinson R22 · operated under 091
THE STUDENT PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL, FAILUE TO MAINTAIN CORRECT ROTOR RPM, AND IMPROPER USE OF THE FLIGHT CONTROLS.
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 August 27, 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