Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15
N15245 is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Rocky Mountain Balloon Adventures LLC, an LLC in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 7, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 29, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-2013
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A0D49F (octal 50152237)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 7, 2012
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 29, 2002
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00001019
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rocky Mountain Balloon Adventures LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 4095
Pagosa Springs, CO 81157-4095
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 2
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The public federal record on N15245, 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 Rocky Mountain Balloon Adventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 7, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 29, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2013 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N15245 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-7325024, cancelled September 18, 1975); Waco YKC-S (serial 4265, cancelled April 8, 1939). 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 N15245. 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