Best Aviation Services Llc MD36
N805LB is a Best Aviation Services Llc MD36, a balloon with no engine, built in 2017. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Smith Ballooning LLC, an LLC in New Market, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2018 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated March 3, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Best Aviation Services Llc
- Model
- MD36
- Serial number
- 36-4
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- AAF56C (octal 52572554)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 9, 2018
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · March 3, 2018
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01270883
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Ballooning LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 6718A Oakridge Rd
New Market, MD 21774-6607
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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 N805LB, 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 Smith Ballooning LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 9, 2018, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated March 3, 2018, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36-4 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N805LB 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 N805LB. 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