Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N3647A is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Santa Rosa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2014 and expires on March 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 13, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3064
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A41E76 (octal 51017166)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 19, 2014
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 13, 1990
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00485161
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sowers William H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1105 S Wright Rd
Santa Rosa, CA 95407-6649
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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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3647A, 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 Sowers William H, an individual, certificate issued March 19, 2014, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3064 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3647A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-135 (serial 22-1907, cancelled May 20, 1965). 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 N3647A: Accident on February 13, 2016 at Petaluma, CA: serious injuries, minor 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: Aerostar International RX8 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate compensation for wind during the landing approach, which resulted in the balloon’s basket impacting a metal fence and a passenger sustaining serious injuries.
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