Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N5025X 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 Orange, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2003 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 15, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3368
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A6447B (octal 51442173)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 4, 2003
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 15, 2003
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00014399
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- O Brien James A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 832 Rail Fence Rd
Orange, CT 06477-1032
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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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5025X, 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 O Brien James A, an individual, certificate issued March 4, 2003, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 15, 2003, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3368 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5025X was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-802A (serial 802A0050, cancelled July 15, 1997); Rockwell International S-2R (serial 5057R, cancelled November 18, 1993). 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 N5025X: Accident on August 6, 1985 at Olton, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Rockwell S-2R · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW85LA307 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data