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N2206F

Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15

Valid Oregon

N2206F is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2004. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Tigard, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 29, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons Inc
Model
FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
Serial number
F8B-2067
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2004
Transponder code
A1E431 (octal 50362061)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 16, 2014
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · April 29, 2005
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00142609

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hebda Michael J
Type
Co-owned
Address
15320 SW 144Th Ter
Tigard, OR 97224-0978
Co-owners
Hebda Rebecca E

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

1992-02-21Bell 206B · 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 N2206F, 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 Hebda Michael J, a co-owned, certificate issued July 16, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 29, 2005, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2067 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2206F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 3525, cancelled February 21, 1992). 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 N2206F: Accident on September 16, 1987 at Gulf Of Mexico: minor injuries, destroyed. 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

FTW87LA220Accident on September 16, 1987 at Gulf Of Mexico: minor injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 3525

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206B · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW87LA220 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