Markowitz David B JUST FUN CAT
N85HB is a Markowitz David B JUST FUN CAT, a balloon with no engine, built in 2022. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Maryland, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 5, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 19, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Markowitz David B
- Model
- JUST FUN CAT
- Serial number
- CAT 1
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- ABA5B0 (octal 52722660)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 5, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 19, 2022
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01356372
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Markowitz David B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 265 Hawkins Rd
Maryland, NY 12116-3209
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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 1
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The public federal record on N85HB, 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 Markowitz David B, an individual, certificate issued January 5, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 19, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CAT 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N85HB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31T (serial 31T-8120021, cancelled November 26, 2014). 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]
1 NTSB record under N85HB: Accident on August 24, 1990 at Mattapan, MA: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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: Piper PA-31T2 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT PLANNING/DECISION, WHICH RESULTED IN HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: FAILURE OF THE LEFT FUEL CONTROL UNIT, AND THE ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC90FA199 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