Star Balloons WORLD RECORD 4
N81SB is a Star Balloons WORLD RECORD 4, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Williamson, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2016 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 13, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Star Balloons
- Model
- WORLD RECORD 4
- Serial number
- 42
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AB0895 (octal 52604225)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2016
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 13, 1985
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00310392
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Buckles Richard A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6423 Cole St
Williamson, NY 14589-9339
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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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N81SB, 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 Buckles Richard A, an individual, certificate issued June 24, 2016, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N81SB 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 N81SB. 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