Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15
N3209M is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Old World Balloonery LLC, an LLC in Overland Park, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2012 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 13, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-529
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A371EF (octal 50670757)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 2012
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 13, 1997
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00606401
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Old World Balloonery LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 12600 W 142Nd St
Overland Park, KS 66221-8072
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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 2
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The public federal record on N3209M, 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 Old World Balloonery LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 23, 2012, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 13, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-529 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3209M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-12 (serial 12-1879, cancelled March 22, 1956); Bell 206L-3 (serial 51090, cancelled date not given). 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 N3209M. 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