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N3017D

Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 8B-15

Valid New York

N3017D is a Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2017. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Balloon Detail INC, a corporation in Norwich, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 11, 2017.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc
Model
FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
Serial number
F8B-2120
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
2017
Transponder code
A3265A (octal 50623132)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 10, 2017
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · July 11, 2017
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01254650

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Balloon Detail INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 903
Norwich, NY 13815-3903

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N3017D, 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 Balloon Detail INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 10, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 11, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2120 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N3017D according to the deregistered file. [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 N3017D. 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