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N30053

Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 12B

Valid Colorado

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc
Model
FIREFLY 12B
Serial number
F12B-011
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2016
Transponder code
A32275 (octal 50621165)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 28, 2017
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · December 28, 2016
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01227827

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rocky Mountain Balloon Adventures
Type
Corporation
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

2007-06-22Piper Aircraft Inc PA 46-350P · exported to Germany · Valid registration
2004-07-02Beckett Oris Glenn ZENITH CH 701 · Valid registration
1981-12-23Cessna T210L · Valid registration
1965-05-21Douglas C-54B · exported to Brazil · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Rocky Mountain Balloon Adventures, a corporation, certificate issued March 28, 2017, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 28, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F12B-011 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

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]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N30053. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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