National Ballooning Ltd 858
N3181N is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine, built in 2008. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 3, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 10, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- National Ballooning Ltd
- Model
- 858 · all 858s and related versions
- Serial number
- 164
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A36711 (octal 50663421)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 3, 2016
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 10, 2008
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00459359
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grote Matthew
- 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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3181N, 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, an individual, certificate issued October 3, 2016, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 10, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 164 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3181N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 120 (serial 13439, cancelled September 17, 1947). 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 N3181N: Accident on April 9, 1992 at Agusta, KS: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: George Adrian RANDS/ COYOTE · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN A PROPER DESCENT RATE, AND AN AIRSPEED ABOVE STALLING SPEED DURING A VFR FINAL APPROACH.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI92DCQ01 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