Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B
N7108C is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 30, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B · all FIREFLY 8Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-114
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A97F80 (octal 52277600)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 30, 1987
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00773821
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sewell Robert M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 130 Cliff View Dr
Reno, NV 89523-9624 - Co-owners
- Sewell Moriah J
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 N7108C, 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 Sewell Robert M, a co-owned, certificate issued May 17, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. 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-114 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7108C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed 1049G (serial 4589, cancelled January 20, 1972). 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 N7108C. 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