{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1992-11-18","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-12-03","city":"ST GEORGE","country_code":"US","county_code":"053","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-17","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7487008","mode_s_code":"53102121","mode_s_hex":"AC8451","model":"RX 8","n_number":"N9051Y","name":"GNEITING SCOTT J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"St. George","damage":"","date":"2020-11-29","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"WPR21LA155","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to maintain control of the balloon and a member of the ground crews entanglement with a tether rope, which resulted in a serious injury when they fell to the ground after the balloon unexpectedly ascended.","registration":"N9051Y","state":"UT","summary":"Accident on November 29, 2020 at St. George, UT: serious injuries.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9051Y is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1992. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in St George, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 18, 1992.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Gneiting Scott J, an individual, certificate issued December 3, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 18, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3156 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N9051Y was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Ryer Michael QUICK SILVER-C (serial 001, cancelled January 9, 1990); Piper PA-31 (serial 3174, cancelled March 16, 1970). 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":"1 NTSB record under N9051Y: Accident on November 29, 2020 at St. George, UT: serious injuries. 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"RX8-3156","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"UT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2939 HORSEMAN PARK DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00614122","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9051Y","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1992,"zip":"84790"}