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N9071F

Aerostar International Inc RX 8

Valid Tennessee

N9071F 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 Germantown, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 1993 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 13, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
Serial number
RX8-3170
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1993
Transponder code
AC8BAE (octal 53105656)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 21, 1993
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 13, 1993
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00804372

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hall Robert B
Type
Individual
Address
1563 Miller Farms Rd
Germantown, TN 38138-2010

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

1988-11-18Hughes 369HS · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9071F, 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 Hall Robert B, an individual, certificate issued July 21, 1993, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 13, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3170 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9071F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hughes 369HS (serial 110278S, cancelled November 18, 1988). 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 N9071F. 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