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N91008

Aerostar International Inc RXS-8

N91008 is an Aerostar International Inc RXS-8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Alexandria Balloon Flights, a corporation in Milford, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 3, 1998 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 26, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RXS-8 · all RXS-8s and related versions
Serial number
RXS8-3084
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
1998
Transponder code
AC9924 (octal 53114444)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 3, 1998
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · February 26, 1998
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00957081

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Alexandria Balloon Flights
Type
Corporation
Address
93 Hickory Corner Rd
Milford, NJ 08848-2068

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

1954-08-18Douglas DC3C · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N91008, 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 Alexandria Balloon Flights, a corporation, certificate issued August 3, 1998, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 26, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RXS8-3084 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N91008 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC3C (serial 25422, cancelled August 18, 1954). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N91008: Accident on August 30, 1995 at Yuma, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX95LA317Accident on August 30, 1995 at Yuma, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 18-8109061

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-150 · operated under 091

the flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the flight and the failure of both pilots to maintain directional control.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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