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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Quicksilver SPORT II
N5085R is a Quicksilver SPORT II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Garretson, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 13, 2006.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Quicksilver
- Model
- SPORT II · all SPORT IIs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium tube and fabricAn ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth or fabric, the construction of weight-shift trikes and the lightest two-seaters. An ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth. This is how the Quicksilver SPORT II family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 000830
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 503DCSI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A65ABF (octal 51455277)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 9, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 13, 2006
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00265849
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nicolai Eric A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 48426 253Rd St
Garretson, SD 57030-6113
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N5085R links to the rest of the register
- Quicksilver SPORT II 7 registered
- Quicksilver 138 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 503DCSI 72 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Garretson, SD 8 aircraft registered in this town
- South Dakota 2,276 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N5085R.json.
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The public federal record on N5085R, 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 Nicolai Eric A, an individual, certificate issued September 9, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 000830 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5085R 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 N5085R. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data