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N5023U

Aerostar International Inc RX 8

Valid Arkansas

N5023U is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Sky Times LLC, an LLC in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 22, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 21, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
Serial number
RX8-3366
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A64432 (octal 51442062)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 22, 2020
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · November 21, 2002
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00020709

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sky Times LLC
Type
LLC
Address
12726 Paschal Dr
Fayetteville, AR 72701-3758

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 4

1998-12-17Avian Balloon MAGNUM IX · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1989-05-12Bell UH-1B · N-number assigned but not yet registered
1963-11-06Cessna 206 · exported to Argentina · Valid registration
—Jaqua-Buck & Crawford ECF-1 WOODSTOCK · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5023U, 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 Sky Times LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 22, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 21, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3366 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5023U was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Avian Balloon MAGNUM IX (serial 169, cancelled December 17, 1998); Bell UH-1B (serial 621888, cancelled May 12, 1989); Cessna 206 (serial 206-0023, cancelled November 6, 1963). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5023U. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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