National Ballooning Ltd 858
N3181H is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine, built in 2011. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Indianola, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 30, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- National Ballooning Ltd
- Model
- 858 · all 858s and related versions
- Serial number
- 170
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A3670C (octal 50663414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2017
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 30, 2011
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01067865
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Martens Eric A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 706 N 14Th St
Indianola, IA 50125-1566
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3181H, 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 Martens Eric A, an individual, certificate issued July 19, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 30, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 170 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3181H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ercoupe 415-C (serial 3806, cancelled March 4, 1997). 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 N3181H. 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