Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 9B-15
N3003G is a Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 9B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2018. It has 1 seat. It is registered to 605 Balloon Ride LLC, an LLC in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 18, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 9B-15 · all FIREFLY 9B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F9B-2025
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A3221A (octal 50621032)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 30, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 18, 2018
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01283074
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- 605 Balloon Ride LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2504 E Meadowside Pl
Sioux Falls, SD 57108-3706
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3003G, 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 605 Balloon Ride LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 30, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 18, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F9B-2025 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3003G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Forney F-1 (serial 5695, cancelled September 23, 2008). 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 N3003G. 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