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N90712

Aerostar International Inc RX 8

Valid Alabama

N90712 is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Seale, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 16, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
Serial number
RX8-3163
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1993
Transponder code
AC8BC3 (octal 53105703)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 27, 2024
Expires
January 31, 2031
Last FAA action
January 27, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · September 16, 1993
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00974532

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jones Robert Joel
Type
Individual
Address
32 Peachtree Dr
Seale, AL 36875-5132

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

1989-10-10Douglas DC-7BF · N-number assigned but not yet registered
1970-04-22Douglas DC-6 · exported to Ecuador · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N90712, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Jones Robert Joel, an individual, certificate issued January 27, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 16, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3163 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N90712 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Douglas DC-7BF (serial 45238, cancelled October 10, 1989); Douglas DC-6 (serial 42865, cancelled April 22, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N90712. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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