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N91082

Aerostar International Inc RX 8

Valid Alabama

N91082 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 Tanner, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2009 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 22, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RX 8 · all RX 8s and related versions
Serial number
RX8-3174
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1993
Transponder code
AC9A36 (octal 53115066)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 20, 2009
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 23, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · October 22, 1993
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00084562

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Childers Dane J
Type
Individual
Address
20246 Nuclear Plant Rd
Tanner, AL 35671-3541

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

1948-12-20Douglas DC3C · exported to Colombia · Valid registration
—Piper PA-28RT-201T · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N91082, 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 Childers Dane J, an individual, certificate issued November 20, 2009, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 22, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3174 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N91082 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Douglas DC3C (serial 4631, cancelled December 20, 1948); Piper PA-28RT-201T (serial 28R8531013, cancelled date not given). 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 N91082. 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