Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S52A
N9097E is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S52A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Park City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 5, 2004 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 13, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RAVEN S52A · all RAVEN S52As and related versions
- Serial number
- S52A-3007
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- AC93ED (octal 53111755)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 5, 2004
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 13, 1993
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00744462
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bauwens Michael G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7749 N Whileaway Rd
Park City, UT 84098
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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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9097E, 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 Bauwens Michael G, an individual, certificate issued October 5, 2004, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 13, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S52A-3007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9097E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 288616021, cancelled June 2, 1988); Aeronca 11AC (serial 11AC-730, cancelled April 14, 1970). 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 N9097E: Accident on September 21, 1997 at Greenwood, SC: 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: John W. Culp KR-2 · operated under 091
The collision with the ground for undetermined reasons.
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