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N3013R

Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 8

Valid Virginia

N3013R is a Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2014. It has 4 seats. It is registered to New Market Aeronautics LLC, an LLC in Middleburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 25, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 22, 2014.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc
Model
FIREFLY 8 · all FIREFLY 8s and related versions
Serial number
F8-2033
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
2014
Transponder code
A325DA (octal 50622732)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 25, 2014
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 22, 2014
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01148910

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
New Market Aeronautics LLC
Type
LLC
Address
PO Box 762
Middleburg, VA 20118-0762

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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 1

1998-06-23Piper PA-28RT-201T · exported to Italy · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N3013R, 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 New Market Aeronautics LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 25, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 22, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8-2033 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3013R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28RT-201T (serial 28R7931077, cancelled June 23, 1998). 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 N3013R. 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