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N5294V

Aerostar International Inc RXS-8

Valid Nevada

N5294V is an Aerostar International Inc RXS-8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lovelock, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2012 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 24, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RXS-8 · all RXS-8s and related versions
Serial number
RXS8-3106
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
2001
Transponder code
A6AD55 (octal 51526525)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 3, 2012
Expires
December 31, 2028
Last FAA action
July 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 24, 2001
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00883884

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Irwin Patrick S
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 1313
Lovelock, NV 89419-1313

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

1995-09-13Cessna T210L · exported to Mexico · Valid registration
1963-05-14Douglas B-26B · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5294V, 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 Irwin Patrick S, an individual, certificate issued December 3, 2012, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 24, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RXS8-3106 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5294V was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna T210L (serial 21060899, cancelled September 13, 1995); Douglas B-26B (serial 44-35366, cancelled May 14, 1963). 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 N5294V. 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