Aerostar International Inc RXS-8
N5246N is an Aerostar International Inc RXS-8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sandia Park, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 3, 2012 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 30, 1999. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RXS-8 · all RXS-8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RXS8-3098
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A69B01 (octal 51515401)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 3, 2012
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 30, 1999
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00213553
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Anthony Johnny R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 18 Nambe Ct
Sandia Park, NM 87047-8503
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N5246N, 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 Anthony Johnny R, an individual, certificate issued January 3, 2012, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 30, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RXS8-3098 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5246N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell World Helicopters 47D1 (serial 29, cancelled October 24, 1968). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 25, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5246N. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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