{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1993-07-13","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2004-10-05","city":"PARK CITY","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":"2028-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-26","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7485052","mode_s_code":"53111755","mode_s_hex":"AC93ED","model":"RAVEN S52A","n_number":"N9097E","name":"BAUWENS MICHAEL G","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"GREENWOOD","damage":"DEST","date":"1997-09-21","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ATL97LA137","probable_cause":"The collision with the ground for undetermined reasons.","registration":"N9097E","state":"SC","summary":"Accident on September 21, 1997 at Greenwood, SC: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9097E is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S52A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Park City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 5, 2004 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 13, 1993.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bauwens Michael G, an individual, certificate issued October 5, 2004, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 13, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S52A-3007 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N9097E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 288616021, cancelled June 2, 1988); Aeronca 11AC (serial 11AC-730, cancelled April 14, 1970). 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 N9097E: Accident on September 21, 1997 at Greenwood, SC: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"S52A-3007","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"UT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7749 N WHILEAWAY RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00744462","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9097E","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1993,"zip":"84098"}