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N31816

National Ballooning Ltd 858

N31816 is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Passing With Flying Colors INC, a corporation in Tyndall, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 13, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
National Ballooning Ltd
Model
858
Serial number
172
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A36723 (octal 50663443)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 8, 2016
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · September 13, 2013
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01129859

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Passing With Flying Colors INC
Type
Corporation
Address
209 E 15Th Ave
Tyndall, SD 57066-2364

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

1976-05-20Hiller OH-23D · Valid registration

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