Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N9054V is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Handcrafted Furniture Balloon Rides LLC, an LLC in Lake Tomahawk, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 4, 2003 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 25, 1998. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3313
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- AC84B7 (octal 53102267)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 4, 2003
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 25, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00473696
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Handcrafted Furniture Balloon Rides LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7761 River Rd
Lake Tomahawk, WI 54539-9473
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 1
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N9054V, 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 Handcrafted Furniture Balloon Rides LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 4, 2003, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 25, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3313 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9054V was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 (serial 0132, cancelled July 22, 1994); Willwerth Clarence C VARIEZE (serial 656, cancelled September 14, 1981); Mooney M20E (serial 690005, cancelled April 12, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 23, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9054V. 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