Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N5019C is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Payson, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 20, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 14, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3365
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A6413D (octal 51440475)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 20, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 14, 2002
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00019169
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Klitz Thomas J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 265 E 1100Th St
Payson, IL 62360-2809
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N5019C, 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 Klitz Thomas J, an individual, certificate issued October 20, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 14, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3365 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5019C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 2588, cancelled July 12, 1979); Beech B35 (serial D-2281, cancelled April 9, 1973). 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 N5019C. 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