Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B
N9025Z is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B, a balloon with no engine, built in 1990. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Georgetown, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 1, 1990 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 20, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B · all FIREFLY 8Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-175
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- AC79B9 (octal 53074671)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 1, 1990
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 20, 1990
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00135111
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Forenz Thomas
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 722
Georgetown, CO 80444-0722
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 N9025Z, 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 Forenz Thomas, an individual, certificate issued October 1, 1990, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 20, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-175 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9025Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 (serial 0040, cancelled date not given). 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 N9025Z. 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 September 30, 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