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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Aerostar International Inc RXS-8
N7145F is an Aerostar International Inc RXS-8, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 10, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 28, 1996.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RXS-8 · all RXS-8s and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Aerostar International Inc RXS-8 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- RXS8-3063
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A98DF6 (octal 52306766)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 10, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 10, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 28, 1996
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00435811
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Troxclair Edward M
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 44084
Rio Rancho, NM 87174-4084
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N7145F links to the rest of the register
- Aerostar International Inc RXS-8 64 registered
- Aerostar International Inc 825 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rio Rancho, NM 120 aircraft registered in this town
- New Mexico 3,108 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Aerostar International Inc RXS-8 2 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Aerostar International Inc RXS-8 11 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N7145F, 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 Troxclair Edward M, an individual, certificate issued October 10, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RXS8-3063 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7145F according to the deregistered file. [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 N7145F. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data