Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15
N3180S is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Santa Rosa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 27, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 23, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-506
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A366F2 (octal 50663362)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 27, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 27, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 23, 1996
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00225791
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ebiner Ann B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5250 Arnica Way
Santa Rosa, CA 95403-7743
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3180S, 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 Ebiner Ann B, an individual, certificate issued December 27, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. 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 F8B-506 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3180S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182 (serial 18255680, cancelled February 29, 1972). 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 N3180S: Accident on March 12, 2016 at Rock Hill, SC: serious injuries. 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: Balloon Works FIREFLY8B · operated under 091
The pilot’s inadequate compensation for wind, which resulted in the balloon landing hard and a passenger sustaining a serious injury.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16LA172 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