Balloon Works FIREFLY 9B-15
N3185T is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 9B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Sky Adventures INC, a corporation in Oxford, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 24, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 3, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 9B-15 · all FIREFLY 9B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F9B-017
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A367A2 (octal 50663642)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 24, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 3, 1997
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00176401
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky Adventures INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4191 Locust Valley Ln
Oxford, MI 48370-1401
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3185T, 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 Sky Adventures INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 24, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 3, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F9B-017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3185T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 177 (serial 17700485, cancelled September 16, 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 N3185T: Accident on August 6, 1991 at Hygiene, CO: fatal, destroyed (1 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 177 · operated under 091
SUICIDE. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS: THE PILOT'S OTHER PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN91FA110 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