Thomas Handcock 8B
N80039 is a Thomas Handcock 8B, a balloon with no engine, built in 2020. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Saint Petersburg, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 12, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 19, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thomas Handcock
- Model
- 8B
- Serial number
- 3613
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- AAE4C0 (octal 52562300)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 12, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 19, 2021
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01345794
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Handcock Thomas
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1 Beach Dr SE Ste 2706
Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N80039, 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 Handcock Thomas, an individual, certificate issued July 12, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 19, 2021, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3613 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N80039 was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Handcock Thomas 10 (serial 3, cancelled May 16, 2013); Asmus James E Q2 (serial 2844, cancelled February 20, 1992); Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 0882, cancelled September 30, 1988). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N80039. 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 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