{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-03-29","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2001-06-16","city":"PLAIN CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"097","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-24","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7487008","mode_s_code":"51525120","mode_s_hex":"A6AA50","model":"RX 8","n_number":"N5289Y","name":"GINGERICH  JOSEPH","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"FLORENCE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1989-01-14","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ATL89LA074","probable_cause":"THE FAILURE OF MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL TO PROPERLY TORQUE THE THRU BOLTS DURING NUMBER 2 CYLINDER INSTALLATION. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO THE ACCIDENT WERE TERRAIN FEATURES WHICH LED TO THE COLLAPSE OF THE NOSE GEAR DURING LANDING.","registration":"N5289Y","state":"SC","summary":"Accident on January 14, 1989 at Florence, SC: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"ORLA","damage":"SUBS","date":"1983-01-03","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"FTW83LA075","probable_cause":"","registration":"N5289Y","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on January 3, 1983 at Orla, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5289Y is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Plain City, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 2001 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 29, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Gingerich Joseph, an individual, certificate issued June 16, 2001, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 29, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3342 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5289Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T210N (serial 21064153, cancelled November 10, 1992). 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":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"2 NTSB records under N5289Y: Accident on January 14, 1989 at Florence, SC: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 3, 1983 at Orla, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"RX8-3342","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OH","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"9910 PLAIN CITY GEORGESVILLE RD N","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00953704","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5289Y","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2001,"zip":"430649121"}