Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N6312R is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1990. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Old World Balloonery LLC, an LLC in Overland Park, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2018 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 29, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3085
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- A84421 (octal 52042041)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 8, 2018
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 29, 1990
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00195241
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Old World Balloonery LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 12600 W 142Nd St
Overland Park, KS 66221-8072
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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N6312R, 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 Old World Balloonery LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 8, 2018, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 29, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3085 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6312R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172RG (serial 172RG0160, cancelled March 28, 1988); Piper PA-28-140 (serial 2821478, cancelled February 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]
1 NTSB record under N6312R: Accident on February 16, 1985 at Pontiac, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172RG · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI85LA112 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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