Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B
N1521G is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B, a balloon with no engine, built in 2003. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Dekoevend Enterprises, a corporation in Fort Garland, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2003 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 4, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B · all FIREFLY 8Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-2029
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A0D41F (octal 50152037)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 24, 2003
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 4, 2003
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00015299
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dekoevend Enterprises
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 117
Fort Garland, CO 81133-0117
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1521G, 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 Dekoevend Enterprises, a corporation, certificate issued April 24, 2003, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 4, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2029 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1521G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 (serial 11113, cancelled August 28, 1999). 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 N1521G: Accident on March 26, 1987 at Park City, UT: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN87LA074 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data