Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N5237S is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 25, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 19, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3326
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A69771 (octal 51513561)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 25, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 19, 1999
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00696072
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Beebe Kenneth J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2021 Clearwater Loop NE
Rio Rancho, NM 87144-5553
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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 N5237S, 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 Beebe Kenneth J, an individual, certificate issued July 25, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 19, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3326 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5237S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-301 (serial 3010131, cancelled May 31, 1995); Piper PA-32-300 (serial 32-40888, cancelled July 2, 1970). 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 N5237S: Accident on March 21, 1995 at Meade, KS: fatal, destroyed (1 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: Air Tractor AT-301 · operated under 137
the pilot's not obtaining/maintaining clearance with the utility pole. A factor was the utility pole.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI95LA106 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