{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-09-06","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-06-01","city":"OMAHA","country_code":"US","county_code":"055","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-03"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-01","maker":"Firefly Balloons Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FIREFLY BALLOONS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1050116","mode_s_code":"50150454","mode_s_hex":"A0D12C","model":"FIREFLY 8B-15","n_number":"N15163","name":"BROADSTONE RYAN","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N15163 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 Omaha, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 1, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 6, 2001. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Broadstone Ryan, an individual, certificate issued June 1, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 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-2007 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N15163 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-401 (serial 4010833, cancelled May 15, 1992); Piper PA-28-235 (serial 287310017, cancelled April 5, 1988); Stinson A (serial 9123, cancelled January 16, 1940). 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":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 3, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N15163. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"F8B-2007","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"14823 MONROE ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00894074","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N15163","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2001,"zip":"681373971"}