Aerostar International Inc RXS-8
N40706 is an Aerostar International Inc RXS-8, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Air America LLC, an LLC in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 22, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RXS-8 · all RXS-8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RXS8-3076
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4C919 (octal 51144431)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- April 26, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 22, 1997
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00496401
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air America LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4354 57Th St SE
Saint Cloud, MN 56304-9523
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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 3
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N40706, 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 Air America LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 26, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. 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 RXS8-3076 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40706 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 (serial 10060, cancelled July 25, 1990); Piper PA-28-151 (serial 287415072, cancelled September 11, 1974); Piper J5A (serial 51139, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N40706. 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 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