Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15
N2205B 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 Vass, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 3, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-2056
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A1E40A (octal 50362012)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 3, 2004
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00086199
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Meyer Mark A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 425 Riverbirch Dr
Vass, NC 28394-9551
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N2205B, 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 Meyer Mark A, an individual, certificate issued March 14, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 3, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2056 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2205B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8F (serial 6632, cancelled August 28, 1975). 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 N2205B. 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