Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B
N3658E is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to High Soaring INC, a corporation in Naples, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 12, 2013 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 14, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B · all FIREFLY 8Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-068
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A42254 (octal 51021124)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 12, 2013
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 14, 1986
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00120847
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- High Soaring INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 160 13Th St NW
Naples, FL 34120-2067
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3658E, 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 High Soaring INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 12, 2013, expires November 30, 2029. 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-068 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3658E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC6974, cancelled October 17, 1955). 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 N3658E. 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