Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N71383 is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1995. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Bristol, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 2, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3236
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A98ABE (octal 52305276)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 26, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 2, 1995
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00805641
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Winder Jimmy Dean
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11967 182Nd Ave
Bristol, WI 53104-9667
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N71383, 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 Winder Jimmy Dean, an individual, certificate issued September 26, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 2, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3236 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N71383 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 182M (serial 18259599, cancelled February 6, 1989); Luscombe 8A (serial 2810, cancelled February 7, 1949). 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 N71383: Accident on February 2, 1987 at East Troy, WI: 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 182M · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI87LA073 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