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N5148C

Aerostar International Inc RX 8

Pending Wisconsin

N5148C is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2004. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Winneconne, Wisconsin. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 13, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
Serial number
RX8-3378
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2004
Transponder code
A673BE (octal 51471676)

Registration

Status
Registration pending
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
July 4, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · July 13, 2004
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00117569

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Registration Pending
Type
Individual
Address
8486 Shirley Ct
Winneconne, WI 54986-9533

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

1989-04-24Hughes Helicopters Inc 369E · N-number assigned but not yet registered
1968-06-17Beech B35 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N5148C, 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.

ATTENTIONRegistration and identity

Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 13, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3378 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5148C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hughes Helicopters Inc 369E (serial 0008E, cancelled April 24, 1989); Beech B35 (serial D-2433, cancelled June 17, 1968). 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 N5148C. 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