{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-07-09","city":"COLORADO SPRINGS","country_code":"US","county_code":"041","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-04","maker":"National Ballooning Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"NATIONAL BALLOONING LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"6113320","mode_s_code":"50663353","mode_s_hex":"A366EB","model":"858","n_number":"N3180K","name":"SCHARKE PHILIP J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MILFORD","damage":"SUBS","date":"1985-05-31","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"BFO85FA049","probable_cause":"","registration":"N3180K","state":"VA","summary":"Accident on May 31, 1985 at Milford, VA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"SCHARKE TERRYL L","plain_english":"N3180K is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 9, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Scharke Philip J, a co-owned, certificate issued July 9, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 173 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N3180K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 401A (serial 401A0129, cancelled October 30, 1969). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N3180K: Accident on May 31, 1985 at Milford, VA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":4,"serial_number":"173","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5371 EL CAMINO CT","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01139051","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3180K","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"809182152"}