{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1999-12-30","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2012-01-03","city":"SANDIA PARK","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-25"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-14","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7487009","mode_s_code":"51515401","mode_s_hex":"A69B01","model":"RXS-8","n_number":"N5246N","name":"ANTHONY JOHNNY R","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5246N is an Aerostar International Inc RXS-8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sandia Park, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 3, 2012 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 30, 1999. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Anthony Johnny R, an individual, certificate issued January 3, 2012, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 30, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RXS8-3098 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5246N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell World Helicopters 47D1 (serial 29, cancelled October 24, 1968). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 25, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N5246N. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"RXS8-3098","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NM","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"18 NAMBE CT","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00213553","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5246N","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1999,"zip":"870478503"}