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N2184C

Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7B-15

N2184C is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7B-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to V1 Rotate LLC, an LLC in Statesville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 16, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 25, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons Inc
Model
FIREFLY 7B-15 · all FIREFLY 7B-15s and related versions
Serial number
F7B-2010
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A1DA21 (octal 50355041)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 16, 2025
Expires
October 31, 2032
Last FAA action
October 16, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · February 25, 2004
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00086259

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
V1 Rotate LLC
Type
LLC
Address
128 Mojo Ln
Statesville, NC 28677-1720

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 3

1998-01-27Darlington Mark B VANCRAFT ROTORLIGHT · Valid registration
1954-07-27Cessna 195B · exported to Korea Rep Of (S) · Valid registration
—Cessna T303 · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N2184C, 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 V1 Rotate LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 16, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7B-2010 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2184C was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Darlington Mark B VANCRAFT ROTORLIGHT (serial 1MBD89, cancelled January 27, 1998); Cessna 195B (serial 16169, cancelled July 27, 1954); Cessna T303 (serial T30300061, cancelled date not given). 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 N2184C. 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