Bowlander STARFIRE 5
N112JB is a Bowlander STARFIRE 5, a balloon with no engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Maryland, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 2010 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 16, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bowlander
- Model
- STARFIRE 5
- Serial number
- 51
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None, 1 motor · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A0346B (octal 50032153)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 10, 2010
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 16, 1981
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00950700
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Markowitz David B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 265 Hawkins Rd
Maryland, NY 12116-3209
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N112JB, 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 Markowitz David B, an individual, certificate issued August 10, 2010, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 16, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 51 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N112JB 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 N112JB. 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