Rodrigue James N 52-8
N104JR is a Rodrigue James N 52-8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lewiston, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 9, 2005 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 28, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rodrigue James N
- Model
- 52-8
- Serial number
- ROD 001
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A01468 (octal 50012150)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 9, 2005
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 28, 2005
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00140249
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rodrigue James N
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 169 Ferry Rd
Lewiston, ME 04240-1101
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N104JR, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Rodrigue James N, an individual, certificate issued March 9, 2005, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 28, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial ROD 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N104JR according to the deregistered file. [2]
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. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N104JR. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data