Balloon Works FIREFLY 9
N2570E is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 9, a balloon with no engine, built in 1995. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Dekoevend Enterprises INC, a corporation in Fort Garland, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2001 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 17, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 9 · all FIREFLY 9s and related versions
- Serial number
- F9-060
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A273DC (octal 50471734)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 3, 2001
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 17, 1999
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00785442
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dekoevend Enterprises INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 117
Fort Garland, CO 81133-0117
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2570E, 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 Dekoevend Enterprises INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 3, 2001, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 17, 1999, 4 years after the 1995 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F9-060 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2570E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-6153, cancelled August 3, 1950); Cessna 421A (serial 421A0067, cancelled date not given). 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]
1 NTSB record under N2570E: Incident on August 11, 1999 at Hartsel, CO: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Balloon Works FIREFLY 9 · operated under 091
Total failure of the deflation line due to heat damage (as evidenced by glazing), most likely caused by the improper use of the flight controls (burner system) by person(s) unknown.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN99IA154 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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