Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N1424P is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Stardrifter Hot Air Balloons LLC, an LLC in Oakdale, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 22, 2003 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 26, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- 3343
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A0AD10 (octal 50126420)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 22, 2003
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- May 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 26, 2001
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00293764
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stardrifter Hot Air Balloons LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 4413 Hamlet Ave N
Oakdale, MN 55128-2631
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N1424P, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Stardrifter Hot Air Balloons LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 22, 2003, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 26, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3343 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1424P was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23 (serial 23480, cancelled September 1, 1989). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N1424P: Accident on September 30, 1984 at Defiance, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-23-150 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data