Firefly Balloons Inc GALAXY 8B
N1520C is a Firefly Balloons Inc GALAXY 8B, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Pickens, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 10, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- GALAXY 8B · all GALAXY 8Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- GLX-1058B
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A0D3F8 (octal 50151770)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 14, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 10, 2002
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00444097
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Oshields Derrick W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 814 Country Club Rd
Pickens, SC 29671-9072
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1520C, 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 Oshields Derrick W, an individual, certificate issued March 14, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 10, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GLX-1058B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1520C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180 (serial 30220, cancelled March 6, 1997). 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 N1520C: Accident on March 15, 1995 at Winslow, AZ: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Cessna 180 · operated under 091
The pilot's poor judgement by intentionally deciding to buzz.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX95LA135 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
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