Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8
N20796 is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2006. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Marketing Services INC Of Pueblo DBA, a corporation in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 25, 2006 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 24, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 8 · all FIREFLY 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8-2016
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A1AFB6 (octal 50327666)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 25, 2006
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- August 3, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 24, 2006
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00243419
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Marketing Services INC Of Pueblo DBA
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 925 S 8Th St
Colorado Springs, CO 80905-7318 - Co-owners
- Adventures Out West
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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 N20796, 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 Marketing Services INC Of Pueblo DBA, a corporation, certificate issued July 25, 2006, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 24, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8-2016 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N20796 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206-L4 (serial 52272, cancelled February 26, 2003); Cessna 172M (serial 17263839, cancelled March 3, 1976). 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 N20796. 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