{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2008-01-02","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-08-01","city":"HOT SPRINGS","country_code":"US","county_code":"047","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":"2027-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-10","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7487008","mode_s_code":"53126306","mode_s_hex":"ACACC6","model":"RX 8","n_number":"N9158Z","name":"WILSON PETRA","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Hot Springs","damage":"","date":"2022-06-08","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"CEN22LA238","probable_cause":"The passenger lost her grip during landing in a balloon which resulted in her hitting the ground with her shoulder and suffering a serious injury.","registration":"N9158Z","state":"SD","summary":"Accident on June 8, 2022 at Hot Springs, SD: serious injuries.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9158Z is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2008. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 1, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 2, 2008.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wilson Petra, an individual, certificate issued August 1, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 2, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX8-3380 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N9158Z was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-181 (serial 2890101, cancelled February 15, 1989); Douglas TB-26B (serial 41-39547, cancelled June 20, 1960). 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 N9158Z: Accident on June 8, 2022 at Hot Springs, SD: 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"RX8-3380","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"13115 WILD TURKEY LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00342039","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9158Z","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2008,"zip":"577477345"}