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N218ET

Aerostar International Inc RX 8

N218ET is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1994. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Shelby, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2014 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 20, 1994.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RX 8
Serial number
RX8-3188
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1994
Transponder code
A1D7B0 (octal 50353660)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 17, 2014
Expires
January 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · January 20, 1994
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00644652

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Obryan Glen D
Type
Individual
Address
118 Woodland Ave
Shelby, NC 28152-7715

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data