Aerostar International Inc RXS-8
N70289 is an Aerostar International Inc RXS-8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1994. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Turlock, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 1, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RXS-8 · all RXS-8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RXS8-3052
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A95F8E (octal 52257616)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 26, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 1, 1994
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00785172
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fernandes Alta M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 111 E Main St
Turlock, CA 95380-4501
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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 N70289, 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 Fernandes Alta M, an individual, certificate issued September 26, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 1, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RXS8-3052 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N70289 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Upchurch Joe ROTORWAY EXEC (serial 10001, cancelled August 7, 1989); Cessna A188B (serial 18801880T, cancelled October 23, 1979). 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 N70289: Accident on March 25, 1989 at Lugoff, SC: no injuries, destroyed. 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: Upchurch ROTORWAY EXECUTIVE · operated under 091
IMPROPER EVALUATION OF EXISTING CONDITIONS DURING PREFLIGHT INSPECTION RESULTING IN A DYNAMIC ROLLOVER DUE TO DRAG FROM AN IMBEDDED LEFT SKID.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL89DLG01 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