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N508LJ

Paragon Space Development Corp 63001

N508LJ is a Paragon Space Development Corp 63001, a balloon with no engine, built in 2013. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Menlo Park, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 7, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated September 24, 2014.

Aircraft

Maker
Paragon Space Development Corp
Model
63001
Serial number
0001
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2013
Transponder code
A658AB (octal 51454253)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 7, 2017
Expires
November 30, 2027
Last FAA action
April 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Research and development · September 24, 2014
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01159110

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Eustace Robert Alan
Type
Individual
Address
205 Hanna Way
Menlo Park, CA 94025-3583

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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 N508LJ, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Eustace Robert Alan, an individual, certificate issued November 7, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for research and development, dated September 24, 2014, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N508LJ according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N508LJ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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