Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N71696 is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Brandon, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 10, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3265
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A99609 (octal 52313011)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 10, 1996
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00946181
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Richardson Molly
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 48236 265Th St
Brandon, SD 57005-7207
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N71696, 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 Richardson Molly, an individual, certificate issued April 2, 2024, expires April 30, 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 RX8-3265 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N71696 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna U206F (serial U20602160, cancelled November 5, 1973). 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 N71696: Accident on June 21, 2003 at Grove City, OH: serious 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 International RX 8 · operated under 091
The passengers failure to maintain her balance inside the balloon basket.
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