Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B
N71260 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B, a balloon with no engine, built in 1988. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Wicker Basket Balloon Center, a corporation in Wixom, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 1999 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 12, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B · all FIREFLY 8Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-149
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1988
- Transponder code
- A986BE (octal 52303276)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 22, 1999
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · August 12, 1988
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00274291
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wicker Basket Balloon Center
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 50140 Pontiac Trl
Wixom, MI 48393-2019
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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N71260, 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 Wicker Basket Balloon Center, a corporation, certificate issued October 22, 1999, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 12, 1988, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-149 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N71260 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8A (serial 2687, cancelled September 4, 1970). 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 N71260. 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