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N3181P

National Ballooning Ltd 858

Valid Illinois

N3181P is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine, built in 2010. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Centralia, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 23, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
National Ballooning Ltd
Model
858
Serial number
169
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
2010
Transponder code
A36712 (octal 50663422)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 16, 2025
Expires
December 31, 2032
Last FAA action
August 31, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · December 23, 2010
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01062140

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Smith Eric M
Type
Individual
Address
411 Janet Dr
Centralia, IL 62801-6004

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 2

2004-08-24Bell 206B · exported to Germany · Valid registration
1962-10-26Piper PA-23 · Valid registration

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