Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8
N1523L is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Burlington, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 9, 2003 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 11, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 8 · all FIREFLY 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8-2005
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A0D469 (octal 50152151)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 9, 2003
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- February 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 11, 2003
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00017649
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Leonard Ian Q
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1544 Deer Run Trl
Burlington, NC 27217-9175
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N1523L, 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 Leonard Ian Q, an individual, certificate issued April 9, 2003, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 11, 2003, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8-2005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1523L according to the deregistered file. [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 N1523L. 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