Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15
N15163 is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Omaha, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 1, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 6, 2001. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-2007
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A0D12C (octal 50150454)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 1, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 6, 2001
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00894074
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Broadstone Ryan
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 14823 Monroe St
Omaha, NE 68137-3971
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 1
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N15163, 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 Broadstone Ryan, an individual, certificate issued June 1, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 6, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N15163 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-401 (serial 4010833, cancelled May 15, 1992); Piper PA-28-235 (serial 287310017, cancelled April 5, 1988); Stinson A (serial 9123, cancelled January 16, 1940). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 3, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N15163. 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