Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B
N9039A is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B, a balloon with no engine, built in 1989. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Zebulon, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 24, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 4, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B · all FIREFLY 8Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-171
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- AC7DE5 (octal 53076745)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 24, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 4, 1989
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00944561
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kirk Chad Justin
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 522 Somerset Dr
Zebulon, NC 27597-2234
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N9039A, 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 Kirk Chad Justin, an individual, certificate issued August 24, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 4, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-171 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9039A according to the deregistered file. [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 N9039A: Accident on August 12, 1987 at Independence, CA: 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 170A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX87LA289 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data