Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N9052N is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Aamodt'S Hot Air Balloon Rides INC, a corporation in Stillwater, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 2, 2008 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 30, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3158
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- AC846A (octal 53102152)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 2, 2008
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 30, 1993
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00234352
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aamodt'S Hot Air Balloon Rides INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 40
Stillwater, MN 55082-0040
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 N9052N, 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 Aamodt'S Hot Air Balloon Rides INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 2, 2008, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 30, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3158 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9052N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stevenson Charles T WEEDHOPPER 292 (serial 0030, cancelled March 22, 1989). 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 N9052N. 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 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