diff --git a/src/FlatBuffers/table.jl b/src/FlatBuffers/table.jl
index a17d1cd0..a430ea50 100644
--- a/src/FlatBuffers/table.jl
+++ b/src/FlatBuffers/table.jl
@@ -100,18 +100,23 @@ function vector(t::Table, off)
     return x + sizeof(UOffsetT)
 end
 
-struct Array{T,S,TT} <: AbstractVector{T}
+struct Array{T,S,TT,D<:AbstractVector{S}} <: AbstractVector{T}
     _tab::TT
     pos::Int64
-    data::Vector{S}
+    data::D
 end
 
 function Array{T}(t::Table, off) where {T}
     a = vector(t, off)
     S = T <: Table ? UOffsetT : T <: Struct ? NTuple{structsizeof(T),UInt8} : T
     ptr = convert(Ptr{S}, pointer(bytes(t), a + 1))
-    data = unsafe_wrap(Base.Array, ptr, vectorlen(t, off))
-    return Array{T,S,typeof(t)}(t, a, data)
+    len = vectorlen(t, off)
+    data = if UInt(ptr) % Base.datatype_alignment(S) == 0
+        unsafe_wrap(Base.Array, ptr, len)
+    else
+        reinterpret(S, @view bytes(t)[(a + 1):(a + len * sizeof(S))])
+    end
+    return Array{T,S,typeof(t),typeof(data)}(t, a, data)
 end
 
 function structsizeof end
diff --git a/src/metadata/Message.jl b/src/metadata/Message.jl
index 0e494394..126297f8 100644
--- a/src/metadata/Message.jl
+++ b/src/metadata/Message.jl
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ function Base.getproperty(x::RecordBatch, field::Symbol)
     elseif field === :variadicBufferCounts
         o = FlatBuffers.offset(x, 12)
         if o != 0
-            return FlatBuffers.Array{Int32}(x, o)
+            return FlatBuffers.Array{Int64}(x, o)
         end
     end
     return nothing
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 4f7d28b2..a19b4a3a 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -1107,6 +1107,22 @@ end
                 joinpath(dirname(pathof(Arrow)), "../test/reject_reason_trimmed.arrow"),
             )
             @test t.reject_reason[end] == "POST_ONLY"
+
+            # RecordBatch.variadicBufferCounts uses 64-bit integers in the Arrow spec
+            FB = Arrow.FlatBuffers
+            b = FB.Builder(64)
+            FB.startvector!(b, sizeof(Int64), 3, sizeof(Int64))
+            for cnt in Iterators.reverse(Int64[0, 7, 0])
+                FB.prepend!(b, cnt)
+            end
+            varcounts = FB.endvector!(b, 3)
+            FB.startobject!(b, 5)
+            FB.prependoffsetslot!(b, 4, varcounts, 0) # slot 4 (offset 12) = variadicBufferCounts
+            FB.finish!(b, Arrow.Meta.recordBatchEnd(b))
+
+            rb = FB.getrootas(Arrow.Meta.RecordBatch, Vector(FB.finishedbytes(b)), 0)
+            @test eltype(rb.variadicBufferCounts) === Int64
+            @test collect(rb.variadicBufferCounts) == Int64[0, 7, 0]
         end
     end # @testset "misc"