Balloon Works FIREFLY 8
N777HB is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Maryland, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 1997 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 15, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8 · all FIREFLY 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8-422
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AA83B9 (octal 52501671)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 19, 1997
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 15, 1997
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00146451
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Markowitz David
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 265 Hawkins Rd
Maryland, NY 12116-3209
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N777HB, 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 Markowitz David, an individual, certificate issued May 19, 1997, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 15, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8-422 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N777HB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 310Q (serial 310Q0073, cancelled March 17, 1995). 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]
1 NTSB record under N777HB: Accident on September 30, 1993 at Edgewood, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 310Q · operated under 091
A PROPELLER CONTROL UNIT FAILURE, AND LOSS OF THE PILOT'S OPTION TO FEATHER THE PROPELLER. A FACTOR WAS THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN FOR A FORCED LANDING.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW93LA271 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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