National Ballooning Ltd 858
N9005E is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine, built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ottumwa, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 15, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- National Ballooning Ltd
- Model
- 858 · all 858s and related versions
- Serial number
- 146
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- AC7238 (octal 53071070)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 15, 2003
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00039929
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Loving Jason R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1201 S Quincy Ave
Ottumwa, IA 52501-5645
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 N9005E, 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 Loving Jason R, an individual, certificate issued July 31, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 15, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 146 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9005E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aerospatiale SA315B (serial 2538, cancelled July 16, 1999); Aeronca 11AC (serial 11AC636, cancelled January 4, 1971). 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 N9005E: Accident on June 17, 2012 at Pierce, NE: 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: National Ballooning LTD 858 · operated under 091
The balloon pilot’s encounter with increased wind during landing, which resulted in a hard landing and a passenger’s injury.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN12CA393 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