Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15
N32896 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Altitude Adventures INC, a corporation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 1, 2009 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated March 9, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-550
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A38FBA (octal 50707672)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 1, 2009
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · March 9, 1998
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00356911
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Altitude Adventures INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 65988
Albuquerque, NM 87193-5988
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N32896, 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 Altitude Adventures INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 1, 2009, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated March 9, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-550 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N32896 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J5A (serial 5-403, cancelled January 14, 1971). 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 N32896. 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