{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2022-03-19","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-01-05","city":"MARYLAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"077","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":"2029-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-07","maker":"Markowitz David B","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MARKOWITZ DAVID B","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05640N5","mode_s_code":"52722660","mode_s_hex":"ABA5B0","model":"JUST FUN CAT","n_number":"N85HB","name":"MARKOWITZ DAVID B","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MATTAPAN","damage":"DEST","date":"1990-08-24","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"NYC90FA199","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT PLANNING/DECISION, WHICH RESULTED IN HIS FAILURE TO  MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT.  FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE:  FAILURE OF THE LEFT FUEL CONTROL UNIT,  AND THE ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS.","registration":"N85HB","state":"MA","summary":"Accident on August 24, 1990 at Mattapan, MA: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N85HB is a Markowitz David B JUST FUN CAT, a balloon with no engine, built in 2022. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Maryland, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 5, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 19, 2022.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Markowitz David B, an individual, certificate issued January 5, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 19, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CAT 1 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N85HB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31T (serial 31T-8120021, cancelled November 26, 2014). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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 N85HB: Accident on August 24, 1990 at Mattapan, MA: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"CAT 1","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"265 HAWKINS RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01356372","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N85HB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2022,"zip":"121163209"}