Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N7138H is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Florence, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2019 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 31, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3312
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A98AAA (octal 52305252)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 21, 2019
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 31, 1998
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00663696
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Backes Daniel A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 800 E Butte Ave Lot 39
Florence, AZ 85132-9237
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N7138H, 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 Backes Daniel A, an individual, certificate issued February 21, 2019, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 31, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3312 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7138H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 20396, cancelled July 20, 1965). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N7138H. 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