Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15
N1518L is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Air Mo Sports, a corporation in Orchard Lake, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 22, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-2001
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A0D161 (octal 50150541)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 29, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 22, 2001
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00623734
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Mo Sports
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3508 Erie Dr
Orchard Lake, MI 48324-1522
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N1518L, 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 Air Mo Sports, a corporation, certificate issued September 29, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 22, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1518L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A36 (serial E-817, cancelled April 2, 1976). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1518L. 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