Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15
N1527E is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2003. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Statesville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 9, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-2037
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A0D4EF (octal 50152357)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 9, 2003
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00039919
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dunavent Duncan
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 813 Elmwood Rd
Statesville, NC 28625-1182
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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 2
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The public federal record on N1527E, 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 Dunavent Duncan, an individual, certificate issued April 7, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 9, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2037 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1527E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17271034, cancelled June 29, 1994); Champion 7AC (serial 7AC-5090, cancelled February 27, 1964). 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 N1527E: Accident on November 10, 1992 at Ormond Beach, FL: no injuries, destroyed. 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 172N · operated under 091
A FIRE OF AN UNDETERMINED SOURCE WHICH ERUPTED IN THE LEFT CABIN AREA DURING TAKEOFF.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA93LA016 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