Aerostar International Inc RXS-8
N5085G is an Aerostar International Inc RXS-8, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rancho Murieta, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 23, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RXS-8 · all RXS-8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RXS8-3094
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A65AB6 (octal 51455266)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2014
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 23, 1999
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00263807
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nelson Tim
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7238 Murieta Dr # A2A-324
Rancho Murieta, CA 95683-9700
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5085G, 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 Nelson Tim, an individual, certificate issued August 14, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RXS8-3094 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5085G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17273534, cancelled January 20, 1996). 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]
2 NTSB records under N5085G: Accident on May 27, 1995 at Weston, WV: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Accident on April 14, 1992 at Sidney, OH: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain airspeed which resulted in an inadvertent stall, and a subsequent uncontrolled descent and collision with the ground.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC95LA122 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN AIRPLANE DIRECTIONAL CONTROL AFTER LANDING, WHICH RESULTED IN A DEPARTURE FROM THE RUNWAY AND ENCOUNTER WITH ROUGH TERRAIN.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC92LA077 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