Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15
N2085E 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 Spirit Lake, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 8, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 28, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-2096
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A1B2C7 (octal 50331307)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 8, 2019
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- February 9, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 28, 2006
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00278079
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scheve Eric J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 21461 154Th Street Pl
Spirit Lake, IA 51360-7283
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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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N2085E, 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 Scheve Eric J, an individual, certificate issued January 8, 2019, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 28, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2096 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2085E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-31-350 (serial 31-7405203, cancelled April 4, 1990); Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-5655, cancelled February 7, 1952). 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 N2085E. 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