Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N4027K is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Handcrafted Furniture Balloon Rides LLC, an LLC in Lake Tomahawk, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 21, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3286
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4B766 (octal 51133546)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 21, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00066431
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Handcrafted Furniture Balloon Rides LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7761 River Rd
Lake Tomahawk, WI 54539-9473
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4027K, 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 Handcrafted Furniture Balloon Rides LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 21, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3286 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4027K was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hiller UH-12E (serial 5067, cancelled November 3, 1989); North American NAVION A (serial NAV-4-1027, cancelled August 10, 1953). 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 N4027K: Accident on January 5, 1984 at Mapleton, OR: minor 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: Hiller UH-12E · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA84LA034 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