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N9124G

Aerostar International Inc S-57A

N9124G is an Aerostar International Inc S-57A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Raleigh, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 2, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
S-57A · all S-57As and related versions
Serial number
S57A-3200
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
1
Year built
1998
Transponder code
ACA104 (octal 53120404)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 27, 2006
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · April 2, 1998
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00617151

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hoyle Kenneth B
Type
Individual
Address
5321 Coronado Dr
Raleigh, NC 27609-5126

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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

1994-07-27Cessna 182N · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N9124G, 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 Hoyle Kenneth B, an individual, certificate issued January 27, 2006, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 2, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57A-3200 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9124G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182N (serial 18260664, cancelled July 27, 1994). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N9124G: Accident on April 8, 1994 at Kerman, CA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX94LA184Accident on April 8, 1994 at Kerman, CA: serious injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 18260664

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182N · operated under 091

AN EXHAUST GAS LEAK, DUE TO INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE, WHICH RESULTED IN CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING, INCAPACITION OF THE PILOT, AND LOSS OF AIRCRAFT CONTROL.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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