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N5303C

Aerostar International Inc RX 8

N5303C is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Irene, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 22, 2008 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 20, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
Serial number
RX3349
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2001
Transponder code
A6B331 (octal 51531461)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 22, 2008
Expires
January 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · August 20, 2001
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00763827

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gunderson John H
Type
Co-owned
Address
29875 443Rd Ave
Irene, SD 57037-5607
Co-owners
Schiefen Grace Ann

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N5303C, 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 Gunderson John H, a co-owned, certificate issued February 22, 2008, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 20, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX3349 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5303C according to the deregistered file. [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 N5303C. 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