Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15
N1525G is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Casper, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 2015 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 6, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-2018
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A0D4AB (octal 50152253)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 29, 2015
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 6, 2002
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00957311
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wagner Cameron B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2131 Dover Ave
Casper, WY 82604-3420
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N1525G, 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 Wagner Cameron B, an individual, certificate issued September 29, 2015, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 6, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2018 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1525G 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]
1 NTSB record under N1525G: Accident on June 17, 1994 at Brainerd, MN: fatal, destroyed (3 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: Beech A-36 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO FOLLOW THE PUBLISHED MISSED APPROACH PROCEDURE, AND HIS FAILURE TO OBTAIN AND/OR MAINTAIN ADEQUATE ALTITUDE TO AVOID COLLISION WITH THE TERRAIN. FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE PILOT'S LACK OF INSTRUMENT FLYING EXPERIENCE, AND THE CONTROLLER'S FAILURE TO FOLLOW STANDARD PROCEDURES AND TO PROVIDE MORE COMPLETE AND HELPFUL GUIDANCE TO THE INEXPERIENCED PILOT DURING THE APPROACH.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO94FA103 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