National Ballooning Ltd 858
N20081 is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pella, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 4, 2018 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 26, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- National Ballooning Ltd
- Model
- 858 · all 858s and related versions
- Serial number
- 139
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A1958D (octal 50312615)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 4, 2018
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 26, 2001
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00713994
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N20081, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Hartson Jason R, an individual, certificate issued December 4, 2018, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 26, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 139 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N20081 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17260992, cancelled July 22, 1983); Piper J-2 (serial 1881, cancelled October 6, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N20081. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data