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N90719

Balloon Works FIREFLY 8

Valid Nevada

N90719 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Minden, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 21, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 10, 1990.

Aircraft

Maker
Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 8 · all FIREFLY 8s and related versions
Serial number
F8-356
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AC8BCA (octal 53105712)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 21, 2023
Expires
May 31, 2030
Last FAA action
May 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · April 10, 1990
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00274951

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Grauberger Sheldon D
Type
Individual
Address
2804 E Valley Rd
Minden, NV 89423-9282

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

1981-10-15Robinson Helicopter R22 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N90719, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Grauberger Sheldon D, an individual, certificate issued May 21, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8-356 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N90719 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 (serial 0193, cancelled October 15, 1981). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N90719. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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