Balloon Works FIREFLY 9B-15
N3175S is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 9B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Buckeye, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 28, 1996 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 8, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 9B-15 · all FIREFLY 9B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F9B-012
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A363EA (octal 50661752)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 28, 1996
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 8, 1996
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00345761
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Starr William K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4425 N Sidney St
Buckeye, AZ 85396-7569
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 N3175S, 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 Starr William K, an individual, certificate issued June 28, 1996, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 8, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F9B-012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3175S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 3689, cancelled May 2, 1990); Cessna 182 (serial 18255675, cancelled February 14, 1974). 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 N3175S. 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