Eclipse 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eclipse Aviation Corp
- Model
- EA500 · all EA500s and related versions
- Serial number
- 000151
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW610F-A · 950 lb thrust
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- ABA69B (octal 52723233)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 5, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 25, 2008
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00464059
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Diamond Cloud LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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]
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: 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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI05LA082 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
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