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N2052S

Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15

Valid Oregon

N2052S is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2006. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Albany, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2006 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 15, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons Inc
Model
FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
Serial number
F8B-2093
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2006
Transponder code
A1A745 (octal 50323505)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 9, 2006
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 15, 2006
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00255439

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sanderson Alan R
Type
Individual
Address
33962 Northwood Dr NE
Albany, OR 97322-7450

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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 1

2002-12-02Gray Terry A SCORPION I · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N2052S, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Sanderson Alan R, an individual, certificate issued August 9, 2006, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 15, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2093 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2052S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gray Terry A SCORPION I (serial 6708, cancelled December 2, 2002). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N2052S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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