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N1511B

Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15

Valid Florida

N1511B is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Skywalker Balloon CO LLC, an LLC in Tallahassee, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 11, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons Inc
Model
FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
Serial number
F8B-2011
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A0D063 (octal 50150143)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 14, 2021
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · February 11, 2002
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00923967

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Skywalker Balloon CO LLC
Type
LLC
Address
3209 N Shannon Lakes Dr
Tallahassee, FL 32309-2311

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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

1998-07-11Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-B · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1953-05-11Luscombe 8F · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N1511B, 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 Skywalker Balloon CO LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 14, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 11, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2011 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1511B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-B (serial F7B017, cancelled July 11, 1998); Luscombe 8F (serial 6138, cancelled May 11, 1953). 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 N1511B. 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