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N53186

Aerostar International Inc RX-7

Valid Illinois

N53186 is an Aerostar International Inc RX-7, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Day Darrell, a partnership in Rock Island, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2002 and expires on July 31, 2028. 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
RX-7 · all RX-7s and related versions
Serial number
RX7-3347
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A6B7B3 (octal 51533663)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 22, 2002
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00327321

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Day Darrell
Type
Partnership
Address
8217 9Th St W
Rock Island, IL 61201-7735
Co-owners
Day Michele

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

1965-05-25Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N53186, 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 Day Darrell, a partnership, certificate issued October 22, 2002, expires July 31, 2028. 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 RX7-3347 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N53186 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR (serial 1275, cancelled May 25, 1965). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N53186: Accident on August 29, 1982 at Blythe, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX82DA321Accident on August 29, 1982 at Blythe, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 17274698

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX82DA321 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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