Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N7046J is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The FAA lists the registration as "n-number assigned but not yet registered". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 8, 1994. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3215
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A9669D (octal 52263235)
Registration
- Status
- N-number assigned but not yet registered
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 8, 1994
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00045182
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- —
- Address
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N7046J, 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.
Registration status is "N-number assigned but not yet registered". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3215 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7046J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206A (serial 567, cancelled August 19, 1988). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 10, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N7046J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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