Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15
N3213H is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1995. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Winston Salem, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 21, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-494
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A374D0 (octal 50672320)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 3, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 3, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 21, 1996
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00425701
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Moormann Richard C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 195 Aztec Dr
Winston Salem, NC 27107-9216
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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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3213H, 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 Moormann Richard C, an individual, certificate issued April 3, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 21, 1996, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-494 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3213H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 212 (serial 31309, cancelled April 9, 1992); Ercoupe 415-C (serial 3838, cancelled August 7, 1947). 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 N3213H. 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