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N3181N

National Ballooning Ltd 858

N3181N is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine, built in 2008. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 3, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 10, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
National Ballooning Ltd
Model
858
Serial number
164
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
2008
Transponder code
A36711 (octal 50663421)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 3, 2016
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · March 10, 2008
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00459359

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Grote Matthew
Type
Individual
Address
580 Casper Rd SE
Rio Rancho, NM 87124-3459

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

1947-09-17Cessna 120 · Valid registration

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