Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N71695 is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Sheridan, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 30, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3353
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A99608 (octal 52313010)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 30, 2019
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 30, 2002
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00854087
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rieger Virginia J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1190 Delphi Ave
Sheridan, WY 82801-2854
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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N71695, 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 Rieger Virginia J, an individual, certificate issued September 30, 2019, expires September 30, 2029. 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 RX8-3353 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N71695 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Wsk-Pzl Warzawa-Okecie PZL-104 WILGA 80 (serial CF20890883, cancelled July 18, 1991); Luscombe 8A (serial 3122, cancelled December 13, 1971). 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 N71695. 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