Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15
N3290G is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Island Balloons INC, a corporation in Lanexa, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 4, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 16, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-510
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A3921E (octal 50711036)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 4, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 16, 1996
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00255961
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Island Balloons INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 8530 Hicks Island Rd
Lanexa, VA 23089-9011
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N3290G, 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 Island Balloons INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 4, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. 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-510 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3290G according to the deregistered file. [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 N3290G: Accident on October 5, 1998 at Albuquerque, NM: 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 FIREFLY 8B-15 · operated under 091
The passenger not following high wind landing procedures/directives which were given to her by the pilot. A factor was the unforecasted high wind condition.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN99LA023 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data