{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2000-04-11","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2006-04-13","city":"WEST DES MOINES","country_code":"US","county_code":"153","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-30","maker":"Cameron Balloons Us","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CAMERON BALLOONS US","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1880207","mode_s_code":"52601243","mode_s_hex":"AB02A3","model":"O-77","n_number":"N8085G","name":"SHELTON JONATHAN R","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Battle Creek","damage":"","date":"2003-07-04","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"CHI03LA208","probable_cause":"The pilot's excessive descent rate.  Factors to the accident were the trees lining the landing area.","registration":"N8085G","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on July 4, 2003 at Battle Creek, MI: serious injuries.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8085G is a Cameron Balloons Us O-77, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in West Des Moines, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2006 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 11, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Shelton Jonathan R, an individual, certificate issued April 13, 2006, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 11, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6248 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N8085G according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N8085G: Accident on July 4, 2003 at Battle Creek, MI: serious injuries. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"6248","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"8262 SKY VIEW CIR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00723533","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8085G","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2000,"zip":"502668527"}