{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-06-06","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-08-26","city":"CANDLER","country_code":"US","county_code":"021","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-08-26","maker":"Firefly Balloons Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FIREFLY BALLOONS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1050116","mode_s_code":"50150155","mode_s_hex":"A0D06D","model":"FIREFLY 8B-15","n_number":"N1511M","name":"TEIS KRISTINE J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"BURLINGTON","damage":"SUBS","date":"1994-05-13","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ATL94LA098","probable_cause":"INADVERTENT BURNER CONTROL INTERFERENCE BY THE PASSENGER. A FACTOR WAS THE PRESENCE OF ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION WIRES AT THE FORCED LANDING SITE.","registration":"N1511M","state":"NC","summary":"Accident on May 13, 1994 at Burlington, NC: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1511M is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Candler, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 6, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Teis Kristine J, an individual, certificate issued August 26, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 6, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2006 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N1511M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-B (serial F7B036, cancelled August 27, 1996); Cessna T-50 (serial 1308, cancelled October 6, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N1511M: Accident on May 13, 1994 at Burlington, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"F8B-2006","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"165 MAPLE RIDGE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00223914","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1511M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2001,"zip":"287157403"}