Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 9B-15
N533WH is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 9B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2007. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Sonoma Ballooning: Santa Rosa LLC, an LLC in Santa Rosa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 31, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 9B-15 · all FIREFLY 9B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F9B-2020
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A6BD8E (octal 51536616)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 31, 2007
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00416189
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sonoma Ballooning: Santa Rosa LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1320 North St Apt 2
Santa Rosa, CA 95404-3442
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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 N533WH, 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 Sonoma Ballooning: Santa Rosa LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 28, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 31, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F9B-2020 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N533WH 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N533WH. 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