{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2000-04-24","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2000-07-13","city":"MEDINA","country_code":"US","county_code":"103","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":"2028-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-21","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7485002","mode_s_code":"51517375","mode_s_hex":"A69EFD","model":"S-55A","n_number":"N5258M","name":"LUTKUS JANET","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"AURORA","damage":"SUBS","date":"1994-03-11","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI94LA110","probable_cause":"an inadequate fuel supply for the flight and the pilot's failure to refuel while en route.  A factor related to the accident was the soft terrain on which the airplane was landed.","registration":"N5258M","state":"NE","summary":"Accident on March 11, 1994 at Aurora, NE: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5258M is an Aerostar International Inc S-55A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Medina, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 2000 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 24, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Lutkus Janet, an individual, certificate issued July 13, 2000, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 24, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S55A-3083 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5258M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech C23 (serial M2018, cancelled July 13, 1994); Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 10558, cancelled May 20, 1965). 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 N5258M: Accident on March 11, 1994 at Aurora, NE: 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"S55A-3083","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OH","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1780 FOREST DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00375660","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5258M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2000,"zip":"442568644"}