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N5241B

Aerostar International Inc RX 8

N5241B is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Ridgefield, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 10, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
Serial number
RX8-3379
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A69A47 (octal 51515107)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 24, 2019
Expires
May 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · November 10, 2005
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00206159

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Nichols Mark A
Type
Individual
Address
1718 NE 173Rd Way
Ridgefield, WA 98642-6217

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

1999-04-01Cessna 152 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1964-09-16Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N5241B, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Nichols Mark A, an individual, certificate issued May 24, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3379 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5241B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15283814, cancelled April 1, 1999); Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20 (serial 1104, cancelled September 16, 1964). 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 N5241B. 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