Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N9051Y is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1992. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in St George, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 18, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3156
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- AC8451 (octal 53102121)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 3, 2020
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- July 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 18, 1992
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00614122
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gneiting Scott J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2939 Horseman Park Dr
St George, UT 84790
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 2
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The public federal record on N9051Y, 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 Gneiting Scott J, an individual, certificate issued December 3, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 18, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3156 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9051Y was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Ryer Michael QUICK SILVER-C (serial 001, cancelled January 9, 1990); Piper PA-31 (serial 3174, cancelled March 16, 1970). 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 N9051Y: Accident on November 29, 2020 at St. George, UT: 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 INC RX 8 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain control of the balloon and a member of the ground crews entanglement with a tether rope, which resulted in a serious injury when they fell to the ground after the balloon unexpectedly ascended.
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 September 30, 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