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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of September 25, 2026
N7271F

National Ballooning Ltd 858

Valid Iowa

N7271F is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pella, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 18, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. 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
118
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A9C00E (octal 52340016)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 18, 2019
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00070496

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hartson Jason R
Type
Individual
Address
110 Holland Dr
Pella, IA 50219-7514

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.

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