Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15
N1527S is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Maryville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-2020
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0D4FB (octal 50152373)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00044026
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kuschel C David
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1500 Pleasant Ridge Rd
Maryville, IL 62062-6420
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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1527S, 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 Kuschel C David, an individual, certificate issued August 26, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2020 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1527S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech P35 (serial D6970, cancelled September 23, 1996). 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 N1527S: Accident on June 24, 1996 at St. Petersburg, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 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 P35 · operated under 091
the pilot's improper procedure by not placing the fuel selector on the tank with the most fuel.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA96FA165 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