Aerostar International Inc RX-7
N90861 is an Aerostar International Inc RX-7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in La Verne, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 1998 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 26, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RX-7 · all RX-7s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX7-3324
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AC9028 (octal 53110050)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 11, 1998
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 26, 1997
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00316941
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cheatham Laurie
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1502 Foothill Blvd # 103/351
La Verne, CA 91750-3429
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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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N90861, 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 Cheatham Laurie, an individual, certificate issued February 11, 1998, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 26, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX7-3324 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N90861 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Let L-13 BLANIK (serial 025722, cancelled November 18, 1993); Douglas C54A-DC (serial 3065, cancelled May 3, 1948). 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 N90861: Accident on September 26, 1992 at New Smyrna Bch, FL: serious 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: Let L-13 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS. THE DOWNDRAFT WAS A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data