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N9153D

Aerostar International Inc RX 8

Valid Missouri

N9153D is an Aerostar International Inc RX 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2008. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Mississippi River Balloon Transit CO INC, a corporation in Saint Louis, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 2008 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 1, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerostar International Inc
Model
RX 8
Serial number
RX8-3382
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2008
Transponder code
ACAC03 (octal 53126003)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 17, 2008
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · April 1, 2008
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01003338

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mississippi River Balloon Transit CO INC
Type
Corporation
Address
29 Briarcliff
Saint Louis, MO 63124-1761

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 4

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1996-04-10Piper PA-44-180T · exported to Spain · Valid registration
1991-01-09Piper PA-28-181 · exported to United Kingdom · Valid registration
1958-11-05Piper PA-22-160 · Valid registration

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