Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N90550 is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Belen, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 2012 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 12, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3297
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- AC84DF (octal 53102337)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 28, 2012
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 12, 2000
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00903615
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Boyer Donald L
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 22 Gonzales Rd
Belen, NM 87002-7351 - Co-owners
- Boyer Connie
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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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N90550, 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 Boyer Donald L, a co-owned, certificate issued December 28, 2012, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 12, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3297 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N90550 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Smith AEROSTAR 600 (serial 600309114, cancelled July 1, 1993). 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 N90550: Accident on October 10, 2012 at Albuquerque, NM: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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 RX8 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to attain the desired touchdown point because of wind conditions and surrounding obstructions, which resulted in the balloon impacting a fence during the approach to landing.
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