Balloon Works FIREFLY 8
N9069D is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Emmett, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 19, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 20, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8 · all FIREFLY 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8-369
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC890D (octal 53104415)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 19, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 19, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 20, 1990
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00855221
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Saldana Adolfo
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1453 Cascade Rd
Emmett, ID 83617-4214
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9069D, 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 Saldana Adolfo, an individual, certificate issued June 19, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8-369 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9069D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18-150 (serial 18-6434, cancelled May 26, 1965). 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 N9069D. 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