Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15
N15095 is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2003 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 11, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-2027
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A0CDE0 (octal 50146740)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 19, 2003
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 11, 2003
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00013109
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Howes Skip
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 703 Point Of The Pines Dr
Colorado Springs, CO 80919-8139
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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N15095, 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 Howes Skip, an individual, certificate issued May 19, 2003, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 11, 2003, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2027 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N15095 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 (serial F7003, cancelled April 12, 1999); Piper E-2 (serial 224, cancelled October 19, 1955). 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]
1 NTSB record under N15095: Accident on April 19, 2014 at Security, CO: serious injuries. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Firefly 8B-15 · operated under 091
An unexpected increase in wind velocity which resulted in a hard landing and the subsequent passenger injury.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN14CA215 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data