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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Balloon Works FIREFLY 8
N9070D is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1990. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Skylifter LLC, an LLC in Naples, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2015 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 21, 1990.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8 · all FIREFLY 8s and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Balloon Works FIREFLY 8 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- F8-370
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- AC8B89 (octal 53105611)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 2015
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 21, 1990
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00865221
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skylifter LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5801 Pelican Bay Blvd Ste 104
Naples, FL 34108-2709
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N9070D links to the rest of the register
- Balloon Works FIREFLY 8 183 registered
- Balloon Works 565 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Skylifter LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Naples, FL 460 aircraft registered in this town
- Naples Municipal · APF
- Florida 21,696 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Balloon Works FIREFLY 8 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Balloon Works FIREFLY 8 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Balloon Works FIREFLY 8 19 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N9070D, 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 Skylifter LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 14, 2015, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 21, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8-370 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9070D 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9070D. 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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data