Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N7170T is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 26, 1990 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 4, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3271
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A99878 (octal 52314170)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 26, 1990
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 4, 1996
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00046221
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reeves Keith F
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 7600 Wells Fargo Trl NW
Albuquerque, NM 87120-2847 - Co-owners
- Reeves Tina M
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N7170T, 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 Reeves Keith F, a co-owned, certificate issued November 26, 1990, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 4, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3271 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7170T 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 N7170T. 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