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N3180K

National Ballooning Ltd 858

Valid Colorado

N3180K is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 9, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
National Ballooning Ltd
Model
858
Serial number
173
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A366EB (octal 50663353)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 9, 2014
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01139051

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Scharke Philip J
Type
Co-owned
Address
5371 El Camino Ct
Colorado Springs, CO 80918-2152
Co-owners
Scharke Terryl L

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 1

1969-10-30Cessna 401A · exported to Kenya · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data