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N6359E

Aerostar International Inc RX 8

N6359E is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Balloon Talk LLC, an LLC in Bloomfield, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 4, 1991.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
Serial number
RX8-3130
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A853E7 (octal 52051747)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 30, 2023
Expires
September 30, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · November 4, 1991
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00553702

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Balloon Talk LLC
Type
LLC
Address
169 Walnut St Apt 2
Bloomfield, NJ 07003-5031

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

1983-04-28Cessna 172N · exported to Canada · Valid registration
1959-04-23Cessna 172 · exported to Mexico · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N6359E, 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 Balloon Talk LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 30, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3130 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6359E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17272008, cancelled April 28, 1983); Cessna 172 (serial 46459, cancelled April 23, 1959). 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 N6359E: Accident on October 28, 1989 at West Palm Beach, FL: minor 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

MIA90LA018Accident on October 28, 1989 at West Palm Beach, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: N6359E

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE UNFAVORABLE AND GUSTY WIND CONDITIONS.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA90LA018 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