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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Eclipse Aviation Corp EA500
N85SM is an Eclipse Aviation Corp EA500, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2008. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Diamond Cloud LLC, an LLC in Millcreek, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 25, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eclipse Aviation Corp
- Model
- EA500 · all EA500s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. Aluminium joined by friction-stir welding rather than rivets. This is how the Eclipse Aviation Corp EA500 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 000151
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW610F-A · 950 lb thrust
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- ABA69B (octal 52723233)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 5, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 25, 2008
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00464059
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Diamond Cloud LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3585 S 2245 e
Millcreek, UT 84109-2958
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N85SM links to the rest of the register
- Eclipse Aviation Corp EA500 220 registered
- Eclipse Aviation Corp 224 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW610F-A 243 aircraft with this engine series · 950 lb thrust
- Diamond Cloud LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Millcreek, UT 7 aircraft registered in this town
- Utah 8,358 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW610F-A 143 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N85SM, 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 Diamond Cloud LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 5, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 25, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 000151 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N85SM was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Matthews R Spencer CHRISTEN EAGLE II (serial MATTHEWS 0001, cancelled October 12, 2005); Cessna 182N (serial 18260264, cancelled June 8, 1987). 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 N85SM: Accident on March 27, 2005 at Iowa City, IA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Matthews Christen Eagle II · operated under 091
The pilot not maintaining airplane control and airspeed, and the stall/spin encountered during aerobatic maneuvering. A factor in the accident was the pilot exceeding the published airplane's aft center of gravity limit and a factor in the pilot rated occupant's fatal injury was approved personal parachutes not being worn during aerobatics as required by regulation.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data