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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Aerostar International Inc RX-7
N29236 is an Aerostar International Inc RX-7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1986. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Vancouver, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 19, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 10, 1986.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX-7 · all RX-7s and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Aerostar International Inc RX-7 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- RX7-3022
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- A2FFC8 (octal 50577710)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 19, 2017
- Expires
- January 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 10, 1986
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00080907
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Atwill John R IV
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 10716 NE 30Th Ave
Vancouver, WA 98686-3900
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
Connections how N29236 links to the rest of the register
- Aerostar International Inc RX-7 96 registered
- Aerostar International Inc 825 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Vancouver, WA 201 aircraft registered in this town
- Fly For Fun Airport · W56
- Pearson Field · VUO
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Aerostar International Inc RX-7 5 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Aerostar International Inc RX-7 11 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N29236, 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 Atwill John R IV, an individual, certificate issued January 19, 2017, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The registration expires on January 31, 2027, in 100 days. Renewal is routine but must be done by the owner of record. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 10, 1986, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX7-3022 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N29236 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 60-TF (serial 2850T, cancelled July 26, 1941). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N29236. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data