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N9146C

Aerostar International Inc RX-7

Valid Colorado

N9146C is an Aerostar International Inc RX-7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Ballooning Society Of Pikes Peak, a corporation in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 9, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RX-7 · all RX-7s and related versions
Serial number
RX7-3330
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1998
Transponder code
ACA8B4 (octal 53124264)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 21, 2025
Expires
March 31, 2032
Last FAA action
March 21, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · November 9, 1998
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00893876

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ballooning Society Of Pikes Peak
Type
Corporation
Address
703 Point Of The Pines Dr
Colorado Springs, CO 80919-8139

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

1993-08-13Cessna R182 · exported to Canada · Valid registration
1954-11-23Cessna 180 · exported to New Zealand · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9146C, 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 Ballooning Society Of Pikes Peak, a corporation, certificate issued March 21, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 9, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX7-3330 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9146C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna R182 (serial R18200420, cancelled August 13, 1993); Cessna 180 (serial 31245, cancelled November 23, 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N9146C. 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 August 27, 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