{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2000-10-17","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2001-01-20","city":"FERNDALE","country_code":"US","county_code":"073","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":"2029-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-03-19","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7487906","mode_s_code":"51524530","mode_s_hex":"A6A958","model":"S53A","n_number":"N5282V","name":"MORGAN DAVID","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ELBERT","damage":"SUBS","date":"1992-04-28","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"DEN92LA047","probable_cause":"FAILURE OF THE CRANKSHAFT LEFT ACCESSORY GEAR WHICH RESULTED IN A COMPLETE POWER LOSS.  A FACTOR WAS:  LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN FOR A FORCED LANDING.","registration":"N5282V","state":"CO","summary":"Accident on April 28, 1992 at Elbert, CO: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"MORGAN KATHY","plain_english":"N5282V is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Ferndale, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 20, 2001 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 17, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Morgan David, a co-owned, certificate issued January 20, 2001, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 17, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53A-3079 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5282V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172RG (serial 172RG0492, cancelled May 16, 1995). 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 N5282V: Accident on April 28, 1992 at Elbert, CO: 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":1,"serial_number":"S53A-3079","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5988 LONGDIN RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00783665","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5282V","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2000,"zip":"982489417"}