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N91081

Aerostar International Inc RX-6

Valid Oklahoma

N91081 is an Aerostar International Inc RX-6, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 11, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RX-6
Serial number
RX6-3003
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AC9A35 (octal 53115065)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 3, 2018
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · October 11, 1993
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00074562

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sturge Gregory R
Type
Individual
Address
4139 E 21St Pl
Tulsa, OK 74114-2110

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

1990-07-11Cessna T207 · N-number assigned but not yet registered
1951-11-15Piper J-3C-65/L-4 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N91081, 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 Sturge Gregory R, an individual, certificate issued April 3, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX6-3003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N91081 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna T207 (serial 20700062, cancelled July 11, 1990); Piper J-3C-65/L-4 (serial 13804, cancelled November 15, 1951). 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 N91081: Accident on April 13, 1990 at Grand Canyon, AZ: serious injuries, destroyed. 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

LAX90FA145Accident on April 13, 1990 at Grand Canyon, AZ: serious injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 20700062

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna T207 · operated under 135

IMPROPER ADJUSTMENT OF THE TURBO-CHARGER ABSOLUTE PRESSURE CONTROLLER, AND IMPROPER MANIPULATION OF THE POWER PLANT CONTROLS BY THE PILOT DURING THE GO-AROUND. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: FAILURE OF COMPANY MANAGEMENT TO PROPERLY TRAIN THE PILOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE APPROVED COMPANY TRAINING PROGRAM, AND THE PILOT'S LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN TURBO-CHARGED ENGINE OPERATIONS.

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