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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Thomas 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Thomas Handcock
- Model
- 8B
- Serial number
- 3613
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- AAE4C0 (octal 52562300)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 12, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 19, 2021
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01345794
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Handcock Thomas
- 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
- 1 Beach Dr SE Ste 2706
Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 4
Connections how N80039 links to the rest of the register
- Thomas Handcock 1 aircraft on the register
- Saint Petersburg, FL 229 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,702 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N80039.json.
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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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data