Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 5
N3014B is a Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 5, a balloon with no engine, built in 2011. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in East Bend, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 28, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 5
- Serial number
- F5-2011
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A325EF (octal 50622757)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 30, 2011
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 28, 2011
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01070841
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ponticelli John Thomas
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3028 Black Diamond Ln
East Bend, NC 27018-8822
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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3014B, 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 Ponticelli John Thomas, an individual, certificate issued June 30, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 28, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F5-2011 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3014B was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R44 II (serial 11481, cancelled May 30, 2007); Piper PA-34-200T (serial 34-7970010, cancelled December 5, 1978); Cessna 195B (serial 7897, cancelled January 16, 1961). 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 N3014B. 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