Aerostar International Inc RXS-8
N5025K is an Aerostar International Inc RXS-8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Above The Clouds INC, a corporation in Middletown, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 2003 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 19, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RXS-8 · all RXS-8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RXS8-3120
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A6446F (octal 51442157)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 10, 2003
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 19, 2002
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00025409
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Above The Clouds INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 4816
Middletown, NY 10941-8816
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5025K, 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 Above The Clouds INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 10, 2003, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 19, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RXS8-3120 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5025K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 8GCBC (serial 28578, cancelled January 26, 1999). 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]
1 NTSB record under N5025K: Accident on April 9, 1997 at Tatitlek, AK: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 8GCBC · operated under 091
The command pilots of both airplanes inadequate visual outlook which led to their failure to see and avoid each other's airplane. A factor associated with the accident was sunglare.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC97FA051 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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