Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15
N72069 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Moab, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 7, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-607
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A9A6D8 (octal 52323330)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 17, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 7, 2000
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00675740
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thornhill Elaina M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 550 Mountain View Dr
Moab, UT 84532-2954 - Co-owners
- Pertuset Nathan K
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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 3
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The public federal record on N72069, 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 Thornhill Elaina M, a co-owned, certificate issued August 17, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 7, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-607 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N72069 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Beech 300 (serial FA22, cancelled June 14, 1996); Reims CESSNA FRA 150M (serial FRA150-0301, cancelled February 12, 1982); Luscombe 8A (serial 3496, cancelled February 11, 1969). 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 N72069. 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