Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N7142S 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 June 9, 2008 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 28, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3238
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A98D98 (octal 52306630)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 9, 2008
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 28, 1995
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00765761
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Garcia Michael A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 7501 Coulson Dr NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109-5458 - Co-owners
- Garcia Jennifer L
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 N7142S, 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 Garcia Michael A, a co-owned, certificate issued June 9, 2008, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 28, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3238 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7142S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150H (serial 15067842, cancelled December 12, 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]
2 NTSB records under N7142S: Accident on April 22, 2006 at Albuquerque, NM: serious injuries. Accident on May 13, 1990 at Shirleysburg, PA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerostar International RX 8 · operated under 091
the pilot's inability to maintain a proper descent rate due to the high winds, resulting in a hard landing. A contributing factor was the high wind conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN06CA069 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150H · operated under 091
PILOT INCAPACITATION DUE TO A HEART ATTACK.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC90FA106 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