Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 8
N9867P is a Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2019. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Tree Top Flyer Ballooning LLC, an LLC in Cleveland, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 14, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 8 · all FIREFLY 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8-2038
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- ADC4C9 (octal 53342311)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 14, 2019
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01298088
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tree Top Flyer Ballooning LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1086 Shinnville Rd
Cleveland, NC 27013-8711
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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 1
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The public federal record on N9867P, 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 Tree Top Flyer Ballooning LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 7, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 14, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8-2038 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9867P was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-25-235 (serial 257556191, cancelled February 6, 1989). 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 N9867P: Accident on August 5, 1987 at Ardmore, AL: 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: Piper PA-25-235 · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL87LA226 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data