Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 8
N3017B is a Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2014. It has 4 seats. It is registered to J&D Bridgewater INC, a corporation in Blairstown, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 14, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 7, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 8 · all FIREFLY 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8-2034
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A32658 (octal 50623130)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 14, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 7, 2014
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01148908
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- J&D Bridgewater INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 7511 23Rd Ave
Blairstown, IA 52209-9550
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3017B, 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 J&D Bridgewater INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 14, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 7, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8-2034 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3017B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R44 II (serial 11653, cancelled May 4, 2007); Cessna 195 (serial 7900, cancelled September 4, 1970). 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 N3017B. 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