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N52917

Aerostar International Inc RXS-8

N52917 is an Aerostar International Inc RXS-8, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Southbury, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2005 and expires on April 30, 2027. 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
RXS-8 · all RXS-8s and related versions
Serial number
RXS8-3105
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A6ACF8 (octal 51526370)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 3, 2005
Expires
April 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00813884

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Burr Thaddeus E
Type
Individual
Address
88 Sylvan Crest Dr
Southbury, CT 06488-1700

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

1993-04-28Cessna 172P · exported to Netherlands · Valid registration
1953-03-23North American AT-6 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N52917, 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 Burr Thaddeus E, an individual, certificate issued May 3, 2005, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RXS8-3105 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N52917 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17274634, cancelled April 28, 1993); North American AT-6 (serial 78-6700, cancelled March 23, 1953). 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 N52917. 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