Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A
N90980 is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S49A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Kennesaw, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2013 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 8, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RAVEN S49A · all RAVEN S49As and related versions
- Serial number
- S49A-3170
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- AC9424 (octal 53112044)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2013
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 8, 1993
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00474432
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scherm Peter J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2743 Country Creek Way NW
Kennesaw, GA 30152-6505
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N90980, 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 Scherm Peter J, an individual, certificate issued July 31, 2013, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 8, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S49A-3170 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N90980 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 8KCAB (serial 6673, cancelled date not given). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N90980. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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