Cameron Balloons Us O-77
N8085G is a Cameron Balloons Us O-77, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in West Des Moines, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2006 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 11, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cameron Balloons Us
- Model
- O-77 · all O-77s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6248
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- AB02A3 (octal 52601243)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 2006
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 11, 2000
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00723533
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shelton Jonathan R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8262 Sky View Cir
West Des Moines, IA 50266-8527
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.
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The public federal record on N8085G, 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 Shelton Jonathan R, an individual, certificate issued April 13, 2006, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 11, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6248 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8085G 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]
1 NTSB record under N8085G: Accident on July 4, 2003 at Battle Creek, MI: serious injuries. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cameron Balloons O-77 · operated under 091
The pilot's excessive descent rate. Factors to the accident were the trees lining the landing area.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI03LA208 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data