Balloon Works FIREFLY 8
N72104 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Piedmont, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 2006 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 27, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8 · all FIREFLY 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8-432
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A9A9B8 (octal 52324670)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 22, 2006
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 27, 1999
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00475652
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mills Ronald Keith
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 109 Vandiver SW
Piedmont, OK 73078-9340 - Co-owners
- Mills Shawndel L
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 N72104, 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 Mills Ronald Keith, a co-owned, certificate issued May 22, 2006, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 27, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8-432 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N72104 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 9269, cancelled November 27, 1953). 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 N72104. 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