National Ballooning Ltd 858
N31802 is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2019 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 24, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- National Ballooning Ltd
- Model
- 858 · all 858s and related versions
- Serial number
- 161
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A366FC (octal 50663374)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2019
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 24, 2007
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00349479
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grote Matthew R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 580 Casper Rd SE
Rio Rancho, NM 87124-3459
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N31802, 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 Grote Matthew R, an individual, certificate issued April 15, 2019, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 24, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 161 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N31802 according to the deregistered file. [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 N31802: Accident on May 31, 2009 at Fremont, NE: serious injuries. 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: National Ballooning 858 · operated under 091
The passenger’s inability to position herself properly for the normal balloon landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN09CA328 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data