{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1985-08-13","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-06-24","city":"WILLIAMSON","country_code":"US","county_code":"117","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":"2029-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-11","maker":"Star Balloons","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"STAR BALLOONS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05637L7","mode_s_code":"52604225","mode_s_hex":"AB0895","model":"WORLD RECORD 4","n_number":"N81SB","name":"BUCKLES RICHARD A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N81SB is a Star Balloons WORLD RECORD 4, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Williamson, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2016 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 13, 1985.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Buckles Richard A, an individual, certificate issued June 24, 2016, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N81SB 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N81SB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"42","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6423 COLE ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00310392","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N81SB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"145899339"}