National Ballooning Ltd 858
N3049Y is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Milford, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 26, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- National Ballooning Ltd
- Model
- 858 · all 858s and related versions
- Serial number
- 154
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A331D8 (octal 50630730)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · August 26, 2005
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00192869
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Philkill Steven
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 298
Milford, NJ 08848-0298
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3049Y, 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 Philkill Steven, an individual, certificate issued April 2, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 26, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 154 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3049Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182E (serial 18254049, cancelled June 18, 2002). 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]
1 NTSB record under N3049Y: Accident on December 5, 2001 at Prescott, AZ: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182E · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to adequately deice the airplane prior to takeoff, which resulted in the airplane's degraded aerodynamic and climb performance capability, failure to maintain an adequate airspeed, and a stall/spin. Contributing factors were the pilot's incorrect weight and balance computations, and his use of an impairing over-the-counter medication.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX02FA041 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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