{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2002-09-30","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2008-02-05","city":"SPENCER","country_code":"US","county_code":"027","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-30","maker":"Aerostar International","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7487911","mode_s_code":"51436164","mode_s_hex":"A63C74","model":"AEROSTAR S53H","n_number":"N5001J","name":"SIELIS JAMES A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Sioux Falls","damage":"SUBS","date":"2004-07-08","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI04LA204","probable_cause":"The pilot's selection of an unsuitable landing area for the balloon and his failure to maintain clearance with the transmission line.  A contributing factor was the presence of the transmission line.","registration":"N5001J","state":"SD","summary":"Accident on July 8, 2004 at Sioux Falls, SD: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"CHAFFE RICHARD A","plain_english":"N5001J is an Aerostar International AEROSTAR S53H, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Spencer, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 5, 2008 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 30, 2002.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sielis James A, a co-owned, certificate issued February 5, 2008, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 30, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53H-3004 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5001J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 310R (serial 310R0125, cancelled March 24, 1975). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N5001J: Accident on July 8, 2004 at Sioux Falls, SD: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"New England","region_code":"E","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":1,"serial_number":"S53H-3004","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"80 GREENVILLE ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00021349","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5001J","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2002,"zip":"015622744"}