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N42021

Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 9B-15

N42021 is a Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 9B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Milford, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 6, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 16, 2023.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc
Model
FIREFLY 9B-15 · all FIREFLY 9B-15s and related versions
Serial number
F9B-2027
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2023
Transponder code
A4FE57 (octal 51177127)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 6, 2024
Expires
May 31, 2031
Last FAA action
May 6, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · October 16, 2023
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01406247

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Erwin Keith S
Type
Individual
Address
98 Sweet Hollow Rd
Milford, NJ 08848-2004

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N42021, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Erwin Keith S, an individual, certificate issued May 6, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 16, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F9B-2027 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N42021 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N42021. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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