{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2002-05-23","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2002-06-21","city":"RIO RANCHO","country_code":"US","county_code":"043","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":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-04","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7487926","mode_s_code":"51533446","mode_s_hex":"A6B726","model":"S-60S","n_number":"N53145","name":"D C G & ASSOC INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"QUINHAGAK","damage":"SUBS","date":"1982-08-25","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC82DAG46","probable_cause":"","registration":"N53145","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on August 25, 1982 at Quinhagak, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N53145 is an Aerostar International Inc S-60S, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to D C G & Assoc INC, a corporation in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 2002 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 23, 2002.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to D C G & Assoc INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 21, 2002, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 23, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S60S-3006 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N53145 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17274692, cancelled August 19, 1988); Cessna A188B (serial 18801646T, cancelled June 26, 1974). 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 N53145: Accident on August 25, 1982 at Quinhagak, AK: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"S60S-3006","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NM","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"700 GRAL TREVINO DR SE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00894147","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N53145","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2002,"zip":"871241204"}