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N3017S

Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 9B-15

Valid Michigan

N3017S is a Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 9B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2016. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Sky Adventures, a corporation in Oxford, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 18, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 1, 2016.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc
Model
FIREFLY 9B-15 · all FIREFLY 9B-15s and related versions
Serial number
F9B2023
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2016
Transponder code
A32667 (octal 50623147)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 18, 2017
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · November 1, 2016
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01227825

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sky Adventures
Type
Corporation
Address
4191 Locust Valley Ln
Oxford, MI 48370-1401

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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

2006-09-22Cessna 150G · 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 N3017S, 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 Sky Adventures, a corporation, certificate issued January 18, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 1, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F9B2023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3017S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150G (serial 15066917, cancelled September 22, 2006). 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 N3017S. 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