Aerostar International Inc RXS-8
N5296L is an Aerostar International Inc RXS-8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Light Flight Balloons INC, a corporation in Bel Air, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 25, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RXS-8 · all RXS-8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RXS8-3107
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A6AD92 (octal 51526622)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 13, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 25, 2001
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00913884
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Light Flight Balloons INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 837
Bel Air, MD 21014-0837
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N5296L, 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 Light Flight Balloons INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 13, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 25, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RXS8-3107 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5296L was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15284288, cancelled December 17, 1993); Piper PA-28-180 (serial 28-4598, cancelled May 28, 1968). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5296L. 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