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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 12B
N30053 is a Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 12B, a balloon with no engine, built in 2016. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Rocky Mountain Balloon Adventures, a corporation in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2017 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 28, 2016.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 12B
- Serial number
- F12B-011
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A32275 (octal 50621165)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2017
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 28, 2016
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01227827
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rocky Mountain Balloon Adventures
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 4095
Pagosa Springs, CO 81157-4095
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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 4
Connections how N30053 links to the rest of the register
- Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc 40 aircraft on the register
- Rocky Mountain Balloon Adventures 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Pagosa Springs, CO 72 aircraft registered in this town
- Stevens Field · PSO
- Colorado 7,484 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N30053, 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 Rocky Mountain Balloon Adventures, a corporation, certificate issued March 28, 2017, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 28, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F12B-011 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N30053 was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Piper Aircraft Inc PA 46-350P (serial 4636418, cancelled June 22, 2007); Beckett Oris Glenn ZENITH CH 701 (serial 7-1820, cancelled July 2, 2004); Cessna T210L (serial 21059881, cancelled December 23, 1981). 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 N30053. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data