Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N5278A is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Seale, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 24, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3336
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A6A660 (octal 51523140)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · August 24, 2000
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00695950
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jones Robert J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 32 Peachtree Dr
Seale, AL 36875-5132
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5278A, 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 Jones Robert J, an individual, certificate issued August 31, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 24, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3336 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5278A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 310 (serial 35478, cancelled March 19, 1957). 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 N5278A: Accident on September 18, 1985 at Mullen, NE: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 210N · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC85LA218 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data