Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15
N21868 is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2005. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Montrose, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 23, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 21, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-2069
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A1DA85 (octal 50355205)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 23, 2005
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 21, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00153699
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Simon Eric
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1509 Dover Rd
Montrose, CO 81401-5133 - Co-owners
- Simon Jodie
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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 4
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The public federal record on N21868, 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 Simon Eric, a co-owned, certificate issued May 23, 2005, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 21, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2069 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N21868 was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Raytheon Aircraft Company C90A (serial LJ1498, cancelled March 31, 1998); Hughes 369HS (serial 410318S, cancelled September 12, 1994); Piper PA-28-181 (serial 287990064, cancelled March 22, 1991). 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 N21868. 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