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N9118X

Aerostar International Inc RX 8

Valid Alabama

N9118X is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Oxford, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 1997 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 16, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RX 8
Serial number
RX8-3176
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1993
Transponder code
AC9DE8 (octal 53116750)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 6, 1997
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · December 16, 1993
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00404662

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mellon Sam A III
Type
Individual
Address
7045 Mcintosh Rd
Oxford, AL 36203-4928

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 3

1990-10-18Mooney M20J · exported to Germany · Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
1987-10-08Piper PA-28-161 · exported to Germany · Valid registration
1974-06-21Cessna 182D · Valid registration

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