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N7098H

Aerostar International Inc RXS-8

Valid Alaska

N7098H is an Aerostar International Inc RXS-8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1995. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 1997 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 26, 1995.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RXS-8 · all RXS-8s and related versions
Serial number
RXS8-3053
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
1995
Transponder code
A97975 (octal 52274565)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 28, 1997
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · January 26, 1995
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00305272

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gastrich Tom F
Type
Co-owned
Address
4359 N Rover Ridge Cir
Wasilla, AK 99654-9340
Co-owners
Gastrich Cynthia A

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N7098H, 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 Gastrich Tom F, a co-owned, certificate issued January 28, 1997, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 26, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RXS8-3053 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7098H according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N7098H. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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