Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 8B-15
N4202S is a Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2021. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sky Adventures, a corporation in Oxford, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 7, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-2125
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A4FE4E (octal 51177116)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 20, 2021
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 7, 2021
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01337918
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky Adventures
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4191 Locust Valley Ln
Oxford, MI 48370-1401
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N4202S, 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 Sky Adventures, a corporation, certificate issued December 20, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 7, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2125 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4202S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Enstrom 280 (serial 1018, cancelled June 7, 2013). 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]
1 NTSB record under N4202S: Accident on July 29, 1982 at Medora, ND: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Enstrom F-280 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN82FA148 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