Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N4031A is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Rhubarb And Custard LLC, an LLC in Deer Trail, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 30, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3288
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A4BA42 (octal 51135102)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 11, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 30, 1997
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00706391
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rhubarb And Custard LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 544 S 3Rd Ave
Deer Trail, CO 80105-8137
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 N4031A, 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 Rhubarb And Custard LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 11, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 30, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3288 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4031A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A-3 (serial FC-155, cancelled November 30, 1971). 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 N4031A: Accident on May 15, 2001 at Sterling, CO: 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 RX-8 · operated under 091
failure by the pilot to control descent rate during approach to land. A factor was a temperature inversion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN01LA099 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