Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 9B-15
N20035 is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 9B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2005. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Sky Adventures INC, a corporation in Oxford, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 24, 2005 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 11, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 9B-15 · all FIREFLY 9B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F9B-2014
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A194E2 (octal 50312342)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 24, 2005
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · August 11, 2005
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00191169
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky Adventures INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4191 Locust Valley Ln
Oxford, MI 48370-1401
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N20035, 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 Sky Adventures INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 24, 2005, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 11, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F9B-2014 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N20035 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Schweizer 269C-1 (serial 0054, cancelled November 1, 2002); Cessna 172M (serial 17260949, cancelled July 3, 1980). 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 N20035. 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