Aerostar International Inc RXS-8
N7172H is an Aerostar International Inc RXS-8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1996. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Monument, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 14, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 17, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RXS-8 · all RXS-8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RXS8-3072
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A998B4 (octal 52314264)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 14, 2021
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 17, 1996
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00246201
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Drummond Julian N M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 18805 Spring Valley Rd
Monument, CO 80132-9702 - Co-owners
- Drummond Linda M
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 N7172H, 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 Drummond Julian N M, a co-owned, certificate issued June 14, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 17, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RXS8-3072 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7172H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerospatiale AS350B (serial 1213, cancelled July 24, 1990). 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 N7172H. 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