Aerostar International Inc RX 8
N9069S is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1994. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 21, 2018 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 11, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX8-3168
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- AC891A (octal 53104432)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 21, 2018
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 11, 1994
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00105042
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bost Randall D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2733 Caddo St
Arkadelphia, AR 71923-5309
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9069S, 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 Bost Randall D, an individual, certificate issued November 21, 2018, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 11, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3168 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9069S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 (serial 0181, cancelled September 5, 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 N9069S: Accident on March 22, 1986 at Memphis, TN: fatal, destroyed (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: Robinson R-22 · operated under 091
A LOSS OF CONTROL IN FLIGHT FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS.
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