{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2003-01-31","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2012-02-01","city":"RIVERTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"013","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":"2028-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-21","maker":"Firefly Balloons Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FIREFLY BALLOONS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1050116","mode_s_code":"50152221","mode_s_hex":"A0D491","model":"FIREFLY 8B-15","n_number":"N1524R","name":"CITY OF RIVERTON","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PINE BLUFF","damage":"DEST","date":"1997-03-17","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"FTW97LA127","probable_cause":"failure of the pilot to see-and-avoid the tower.  The proximity of the tower was a related factor.","registration":"N1524R","state":"AR","summary":"Accident on March 17, 1997 at Pine Bluff, AR: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"},{"city":"CROTON FALL","damage":"SUBS","date":"1987-06-16","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"NYC87LA175","probable_cause":"","registration":"N1524R","state":"NY","summary":"Accident on June 16, 1987 at Croton Fall, NY: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1524R is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to City Of Riverton, a government body in Riverton, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 31, 2003.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to City Of Riverton, a government body, certificate issued February 1, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 31, 2003, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2030 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N1524R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-402 (serial 4020845, cancelled April 1, 1998); Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B (serial AA5B0024, cancelled March 21, 1989). 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":"2 NTSB records under N1524R: Accident on March 17, 1997 at Pine Bluff, AR: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Accident on June 16, 1987 at Croton Fall, NY: 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":1,"serial_number":"F8B-2030","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"816 N FEDERAL BLVD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00015319","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1524R","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2002,"zip":"825012913"}