Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 8B-15
N3007R is a Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gilbert, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 29, 2013 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 3, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-2116
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A322AF (octal 50621257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 29, 2013
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 3, 2012
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01104594
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Roesch Jonathan D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3571 E Harvard Ct
Gilbert, AZ 85234-2229
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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3007R, 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 Roesch Jonathan D, an individual, certificate issued January 29, 2013, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 3, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2116 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3007R was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cessna U206F (serial U20603225, cancelled April 7, 2006); Fairchild SA227-DC (C26B) (serial DC806M, cancelled August 27, 1992); Cessna 320A (serial 320A0007, cancelled November 16, 1989). 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]
1 NTSB record under N3007R: Accident on October 24, 2003 at Edgefield, SC: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna U206F · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to follow the checklist to ensure the fuel filler cap was secured resulting in fuel starvation and subsequent loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL04LA025 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
