Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N7170M is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mount Washington, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 11, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3270
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A99872 (octal 52314162)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 7, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 11, 1996
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00036221
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brown Charles S JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 655 Flatlick Rd
Mount Washington, KY 40047-7004
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N7170M, 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 Brown Charles S JR, an individual, certificate issued August 7, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 11, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3270 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7170M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 175 (serial 55470, cancelled August 29, 1958). 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 N7170M. 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