Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N71756 is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 29, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 19, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3277
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A99934 (octal 52314464)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 29, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 13, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 19, 1996
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00686351
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Richardson Shane R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6917 Las Animas Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110-3526
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 N71756, 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 Shane R, an individual, certificate issued January 29, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. 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 RX8-3277 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N71756 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8A (serial 3183, cancelled August 10, 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]
1 NTSB record under N71756: Accident on September 24, 1989 at Mackay, ID: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). 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: Luscombe 8A · operated under 091
THE PILOT FAILED TO MAINTAIN AN ADEQUATE AIRSPEED FOR FLIGHT. HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE WAS A FACTOR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA89LA179 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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