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N2192S

Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15

Valid Michigan

N2192S is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2004. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Big Sky Hot Air Ballooning INC, a corporation in Oxford, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2004 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 24, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons Inc
Model
FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
Serial number
F8B-2060
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2004
Transponder code
A1DDA0 (octal 50356640)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 20, 2004
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · June 24, 2004
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00107279

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Big Sky Hot Air Ballooning INC
Type
Corporation
Address
5950 Conner Ct
Oxford, MI 48371-1258

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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 1

1998-06-01Cessna 210L · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N2192S, 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 Big Sky Hot Air Ballooning INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 20, 2004, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 24, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2060 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2192S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 210L (serial 21061153, cancelled June 1, 1998). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N2192S: Accident on November 17, 1986 at Buford, GA: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ATL87FA021Accident on November 17, 1986 at Buford, GA: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 21061153

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 210L · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL87FA021 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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