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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B
N90809 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Kpalmair LLC, an LLC in Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 28, 1990.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B · all FIREFLY 8Bs 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
- F8B-316
- 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
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC8F5E (octal 53107536)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 6, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 6, 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 · March 28, 1990
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00294951
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kpalmair 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
- 10580 N Mccarran Blvd
Ste 115 Pmb 314
Reno, NV 89503-1896
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Connections how N90809 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
- Kpalmair LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Reno, NV 665 aircraft registered in this town
- Reno/Tahoe International · RNO
- Reno/Stead Airport · RTS
- Spanish Springs Airport · N86
- Nevada 4,585 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 N90809, 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 Kpalmair LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 6, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. 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 F8B-316 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N90809 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cessna 182T (serial 18282300, cancelled January 19, 2012); Douglas DC-6A (serial 43817, cancelled September 21, 1970); Beech C-45J (serial 4423829, 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 N90809. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data