Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N50466 is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2003. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in North Ogden, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 27, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3372
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A64C15 (octal 51446025)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 26, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 27, 2003
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00039839
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shane Michael
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 3387 N 375 E
North Ogden, UT 84414-1594 - Co-owners
- Shane Nicole
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N50466, 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 Shane Michael, a co-owned, certificate issued August 26, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 27, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3372 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N50466 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 150J (serial 15069323, cancelled December 27, 1973); Fairchild M-62A (serial T42-3672, cancelled October 21, 1955). 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 N50466: Accident on November 4, 2023 at Page, AZ: serious injuries. 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: Aerostar International INC RX 8 · operated under 091
A hard landing after both burner pilot lights extinguished during the landing approach for undetermined reasons. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's inability to relight the burner pilot lights.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24LA029 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