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N1514G

Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15

Valid Tennessee

N1514G is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Kingsport, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 13, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 9, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons Inc
Model
FIREFLY 8B-15
Serial number
F8B-2024
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A0D0D1 (octal 50150321)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 13, 2024
Expires
December 31, 2031
Last FAA action
December 13, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · September 9, 2002
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00003389

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Compton Preston W
Type
Individual
Address
1920 Bowater Dr Apt D2
Kingsport, TN 37660-4149

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1999-05-05Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data