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N1517L

Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 9B-15

N1517L is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 9B-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Balloons Of Hunterdon LLC, an LLC in Ringoes, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 26, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 8, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons Inc
Model
FIREFLY 9B-15 · all FIREFLY 9B-15s and related versions
Serial number
F9B-2001
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A0D13E (octal 50150476)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 26, 2026
Expires
June 30, 2033
Last FAA action
June 26, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 8, 2001
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00873794

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Balloons Of Hunterdon LLC
Type
LLC
Address
30 Toad Ln
Ringoes, NJ 08551-1021

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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 1

1976-11-19Beech A36 · exported to South Africa · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1517L, 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 Balloons Of Hunterdon LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 26, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F9B-2001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1517L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A36 (serial E-936, cancelled November 19, 1976). 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 N1517L. 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 September 30, 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