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N2080C

Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7B

Valid Maine

N2080C is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7B, a balloon with no engine, built in 2006. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Pittston, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2007 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 23, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons Inc
Model
FIREFLY 7B · all FIREFLY 7Bs and related versions
Serial number
F7B-2013
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2006
Transponder code
A1B216 (octal 50331026)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 5, 2007
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · January 23, 2006
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00227099

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Caputo Joseph A
Type
Individual
Address
320 Jewett Rd
Pittston, ME 04345-6859

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

2003-02-21Bell 206-L4 · exported to Nigeria · Valid registration
1977-02-18Beech 95 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N2080C, 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 Caputo Joseph A, an individual, certificate issued May 5, 2007, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 23, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7B-2013 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2080C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206-L4 (serial 52273, cancelled February 21, 2003); Beech 95 (serial TD-268, cancelled February 18, 1977). 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 N2080C. 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