Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15
N2580F is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Palisade, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 21, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 22, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-443
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- A27794 (octal 50473624)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 21, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 22, 1993
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00444402
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mullin James G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3872 G 7/10 Rd
Palisade, CO 81526-8733
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N2580F, 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 Mullin James G, an individual, certificate issued September 21, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 22, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-443 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2580F according to the deregistered file. [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 N2580F: Accident on April 15, 1985 at Casville Juct, NC: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Champion 7GCAA · operated under 091
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data