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N31820

National Ballooning Ltd 858

Valid Nebraska

N31820 is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine, built in 2010. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Omaha, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 5, 2010 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 8, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
National Ballooning Ltd
Model
858 · all 858s and related versions
Serial number
166
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
4
Year built
2010
Transponder code
A36740 (octal 50663500)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 5, 2010
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · April 8, 2010
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01048731

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lacroix Steven D
Type
Co-owned
Address
14411 Hascall Cir
Omaha, NE 68144-5434
Co-owners
Lacroix Elane

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 4

2000-06-27Raytheon Aircraft Company HAWKER 800XP · exported to Brazil · Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
1995-03-17Amadon Frank Donny CHALLENGER II · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1989-09-25Bell - K Copter 47D1 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1946-08-28Aeronca 65-TF · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N31820, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Lacroix Steven D, a co-owned, certificate issued April 5, 2010, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 8, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 166 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N31820 was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Raytheon Aircraft Company HAWKER 800XP (serial 258421, cancelled June 27, 2000); Amadon Frank Donny CHALLENGER II (serial CH201910630, cancelled March 17, 1995); Bell - K Copter 47D1 (serial 741, cancelled September 25, 1989). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N31820. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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