Aerostar International Inc S-57A
N9700 is an Aerostar International Inc S-57A, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Gales Ferry, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 2, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 16, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-57A · all S-57As and related versions
- Serial number
- S57A-3100
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AD85FD (octal 53302775)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 2, 2019
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 16, 2003
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00012819
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Williams Scott M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10 Sherwood Trce
Gales Ferry, CT 06335-1337
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N9700, 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 Williams Scott M, an individual, certificate issued January 2, 2019, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57A-3100 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9700 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A (serial 1232, cancelled July 21, 1999); Fokker F-10-A(FXA) (serial 1010, cancelled July 18, 1929). 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 N9700: Accident on September 22, 1995 at Lynchburg, SC: 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: Grumman G-164A · operated under 091
The failure of the magneto mount pad, which resulted in a malfunction of the magneto timing and partial loss of engine power. A factor relating to the accident was: high vegetation in the emergency landing area.
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