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N5209K

Aerostar International Inc RX 8

N5209K is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Trenton, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 25, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 1, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RX 8
Serial number
RX8-3323
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A68C8B (octal 51506213)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 25, 2021
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
December 3, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · September 1, 1999
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00965892

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bowie Manning
Type
Individual
Address
1099 Morning Star Dr
Trenton, SC 29847-3696

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1971-12-03Ryan NAVION A · Valid registration

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