Balloon Works FIREFLY 8
N30922 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Meridian, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 14, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 25, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8 · all FIREFLY 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8-417
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A3437A (octal 50641572)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 14, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 25, 1996
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00356141
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hart Randy Alan
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 3353 W Park Cr Dr
Meridian, ID 83642 - Co-owners
- Hart Terri Mae
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N30922, 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 Hart Randy Alan, a co-owned, certificate issued June 14, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8-417 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N30922 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 177B (serial 17701547, cancelled October 7, 1992). 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]
1 NTSB record under N30922: Accident on May 21, 1992 at St. Ignatius, MT: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 177B · operated under 091
THE PILOT IN COMMAND'S INADVERTENTLY ALLOWING THE AIRCRAFT TO ENTER INTO A STALL/SPIN. FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: TERRAIN CONDITION, RISING TERRAIN, AND THE PILOT IN COMMAND'S LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH THE GEOGRAPHIC AREA.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA92FA113 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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