Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B
N90825 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Phoenix, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 9, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 2, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B · all FIREFLY 8Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-315
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC8FA0 (octal 53107640)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 9, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 9, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 2, 1990
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00304951
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bahn Reece K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3215 W Phelps Rd
Phoenix, AZ 85053-3001
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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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N90825, 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 Bahn Reece K, an individual, certificate issued July 9, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. 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-315 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N90825 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Lockheed 49-46 (serial 2087, cancelled December 15, 1964); Aerospatiale SA319B ALOUETTE III (serial 2180, 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]
1 NTSB record under N90825: Accident on May 7, 1982 at Jacksonville, FL: 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: Aerospatiale SA-319B · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA82DA116 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
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