Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N71415 is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1995. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 1996 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 29, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3237
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A98D82 (octal 52306602)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 1996
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 29, 1995
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00455721
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- La Lorraine Enterprises
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 2605 Pajarito Rd SW
Albuquerque, NM 87105-6737 - Co-owners
- Hoefler Greg D / Hoefler Lorraine
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N71415, 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 La Lorraine Enterprises, a co-owned, certificate issued February 7, 1996, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 29, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3237 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N71415 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8A (serial 2842, cancelled August 8, 1990). 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 N71415: Accident on October 10, 1997 at Albuquerque, NM: no injuries. 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: Aerostar RX 8 · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot of the Aerostar RX 8, N71415, to follow procedures/directives.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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