Balloon Works FIREFLY 8-24
N2088F is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8-24, a balloon with no engine, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 1987 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 14, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8-24 · all FIREFLY 8-24s and related versions
- Serial number
- 801
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A1B331 (octal 50331461)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 10, 1987
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · February 14, 1976
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00221242
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rogina James W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7001 E Tree Ct
Anchorage, AK 99507-7049
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N2088F, 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 Rogina James W, an individual, certificate issued July 10, 1987, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 14, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 801 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2088F according to the deregistered file. [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 N2088F. 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 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