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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Aerostar 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RXS-8 · all RXS-8s and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Aerostar International Inc RXS-8 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- RXS8-3076
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4C919 (octal 51144431)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- April 26, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 22, 1997
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00496401
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air America LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N40706 links to the rest of the register
- Aerostar International Inc RXS-8 64 registered
- Aerostar International Inc 825 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Air America LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Saint Cloud, MN 52 aircraft registered in this town
- Minnesota 6,933 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Aerostar International Inc RXS-8 2 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Aerostar International Inc RXS-8 11 supplemental type certificates
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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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data