Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N3581D is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1989. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mount Washington, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2015 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 27, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3023
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- A40504 (octal 51002404)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 17, 2015
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- August 5, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 27, 1989
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00154681
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brown Charles S JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 655 Flatlick Rd
Mount Washington, KY 40047-7004
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3581D, 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 Brown Charles S JR, an individual, certificate issued July 17, 2015, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 27, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3581D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170B (serial 27124, cancelled June 8, 1956). 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]
2 NTSB records under N3581D: Accident on October 8, 1996 at Albuquerque, NM: serious injuries. Accident on October 8, 1989 at Albuquerque, NM: serious 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerostar RX 8 · operated under 091
A sudden increase in wind velocity.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW97LA023 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerostar RX-8 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S SELECTION OF AN UNSUITABLE AREA (TERRAIN) FOR LANDING. THE STATIC CABLE & POWER LINE WERE CONSIDERED TO BE RELATED FACTORS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN90LA005 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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