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N21907

Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15

Valid New York

N21907 is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2004. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Maryland, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2004 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 9, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons Inc
Model
FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
Serial number
F8B2043
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2004
Transponder code
A1DD69 (octal 50356551)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 15, 2004
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
October 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · April 9, 2004
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00088229

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Markowitz David
Type
Individual
Address
265 Hawkins Rd
Maryland, NY 12116-3209

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

1975-03-12Cessna 150L · exported to Canada · Valid registration
1943-11-09Cessna C-145 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N21907, 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 Markowitz David, an individual, certificate issued April 15, 2004, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 9, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B2043 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N21907 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 150L (serial 15074527, cancelled March 12, 1975); Cessna C-145 (serial 483, cancelled November 9, 1943). 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 N21907. 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