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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 9B-15
N4201A is a Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 9B-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in New Market, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 9B-15 · all FIREFLY 9B-15s and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 9 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- F9B-2028
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4FE1B (octal 51177033)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 16, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01478675
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fournier Raymond C
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3120 Blueberry Dr
New Market, TN 37820-4857
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 3
Connections how N4201A links to the rest of the register
- Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 9 5 registered
- Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc 40 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- New Market, TN 6 aircraft registered in this town
- Tennessee 6,533 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N4201A.json.
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The public federal record on N4201A, 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 Fournier Raymond C, an individual, certificate issued April 16, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F9B-2028 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4201A was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Neumann Richard A ROTORWAY SCORPION II (serial 1202RN, cancelled October 29, 2013); Vertol 42B (serial 330 F 32, cancelled April 16, 1957); Beech V35B (serial D9130, 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 N4201A. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data