Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N5198A is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Boise, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3320
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6864F (octal 51503117)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 29, 2018
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00275852
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ashton Randy D
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1702 N 17Th St
Boise, ID 83702-1003 - Co-owners
- Ashton Brian K / Ashton David C
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5198A, 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 Ashton Randy D, a co-owned, certificate issued October 29, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3320 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5198A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172 (serial 28198, cancelled February 6, 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]
1 NTSB record under N5198A: Accident on August 16, 1994 at Big Lake, 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: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AIRSPEED. FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT WERE THE FOG, AND THE PILOT BECOMING LOST/DISORIENTED.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC94FA109 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