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N2057F

Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15

Valid Colorado

N2057F is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Grand Junction Balloon Port, a partnership in Fruita, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2000 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 31, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
Serial number
F8B-604
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2000
Transponder code
A1A7E9 (octal 50323751)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 15, 2000
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 31, 2000
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00685810

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Grand Junction Balloon Port
Type
Partnership
Address
PO Box 189
Fruita, CO 81521-0189

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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

2000-04-06Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N2057F, 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 Grand Junction Balloon Port, a partnership, certificate issued September 15, 2000, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 31, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-604 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2057F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 (serial 742, cancelled April 6, 2000). 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 N2057F. 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 September 30, 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