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N50125

Aerostar International Inc RX 8

N50125 is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Douglassville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 2, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 4, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
Serial number
RX8-3315
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A64063 (octal 51440143)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 2, 2023
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
October 5, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · January 4, 1999
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00443617

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gatfield Kelly E
Type
Individual
Address
16A Birch House
Douglassville, PA 19518-2408

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 3

1996-03-19Mcinroe Douglas Kent B1-RD · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1963-11-04Taylorcraft DCO-65 · Valid registration
—Cessna 150H · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N50125, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Gatfield Kelly E, an individual, certificate issued February 2, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 4, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3315 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N50125 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Mcinroe Douglas Kent B1-RD (serial 0034, cancelled March 19, 1996); Taylorcraft DCO-65 (serial L5443, cancelled November 4, 1963); Cessna 150H (serial 15069077, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N50125: Accident on May 19, 1985 at Durand, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CHI85LA201Accident on May 19, 1985 at Durand, IL: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 15069077

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI85LA201 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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