Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15
N2568L is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1992. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Naples, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 20, 2017 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 21, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-424
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A27143 (octal 50470503)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 20, 2017
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · August 21, 1992
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00384012
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Buckles Lyndell G Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 14500 Tamiami Trl E # 522
Naples, FL 34114-8428 - Co-owners
- Buckles Carol J Trustee
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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
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The public federal record on N2568L, 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 Buckles Lyndell G Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued April 20, 2017, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 21, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-424 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2568L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172H (serial 17255768, cancelled November 18, 1989). 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 N2568L. 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 September 30, 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