National Ballooning Ltd 858
N7003L is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rosemount, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 11, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 28, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- National Ballooning Ltd
- Model
- 858 · all 858s and related versions
- Serial number
- 127
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A9575A (octal 52253532)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 11, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 28, 1995
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00095512
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ness Christopher J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3360 Couchtown Path
Rosemount, MN 55068-4718
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N7003L, 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 Ness Christopher J, an individual, certificate issued April 11, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 127 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7003L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Avian Balloons TURBO 8 (serial 121, cancelled August 1, 1990). 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 N7003L. 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