National Ballooning Ltd 858
N3183A is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Dakota Apple Partnership, a partnership in Minot, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 24, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- National Ballooning Ltd
- Model
- 858 · all 858s and related versions
- Serial number
- 162
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A3674B (octal 50663513)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 17, 2016
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 24, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00349489
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dakota Apple Partnership
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- PO Box 969
Minot, ND 58702-0969
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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 N3183A, 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 Dakota Apple Partnership, a partnership, certificate issued October 17, 2016, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 24, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 162 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3183A 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3183A. 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