{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1994-11-08","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"","country_code":"","county_code":"","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":"2026-09-10"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-08-11","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7487008","mode_s_code":"52263235","mode_s_hex":"A9669D","model":"RX 8","n_number":"N7046J","name":"","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N7046J is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The FAA lists the registration as \"n-number assigned but not yet registered\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 8, 1994. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"N-number assigned but not yet registered\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3215 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N7046J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206A (serial 567, cancelled August 19, 1988). 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 10, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N7046J. 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":"","region_code":"","registrant_type":"","registrant_type_code":"","seats":1,"serial_number":"RX8-3215","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"N-number assigned but not yet registered","status_code":"2","status_short":"Assigned, not yet registered","street":"","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00045182","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N7046J","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":""}