Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 7B-15
N3000S is a Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 7B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2011. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sanford, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 19, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 16, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 7B-15 · all FIREFLY 7B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7B-2017
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A321BB (octal 50620673)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 19, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 19, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 16, 2011
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01066408
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rivas Stacee L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2810 Carolina Way
Sanford, NC 27332-0139
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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 3
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3000S, 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 Rivas Stacee L, an individual, certificate issued November 19, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 16, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7B-2017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3000S was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Ayres Corporation S2R-G10 (serial G10107, cancelled September 26, 1994); Fairchild SA227-AC (serial AC782, cancelled March 6, 1992); Aero Commander 500-B (serial 500B1302117, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3000S. 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