National Ballooning Ltd 858
N3181P is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine, built in 2010. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Centralia, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 23, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- National Ballooning Ltd
- Model
- 858 · all 858s and related versions
- Serial number
- 169
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A36712 (octal 50663422)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 16, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 31, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 23, 2010
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01062140
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Eric M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 411 Janet Dr
Centralia, IL 62801-6004
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 N3181P, 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 Smith Eric M, an individual, certificate issued December 16, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 23, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 169 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3181P was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 3567, cancelled August 24, 2004); Piper PA-23 (serial 231118, cancelled October 26, 1962). 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 N3181P. 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