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N1520C

Firefly Balloons Inc GALAXY 8B

N1520C is a Firefly Balloons Inc GALAXY 8B, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Pickens, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 10, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons Inc
Model
GALAXY 8B
Serial number
GLX-1058B
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A0D3F8 (octal 50151770)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 14, 2024
Expires
March 31, 2031
Last FAA action
March 14, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · April 10, 2002
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00444097

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Oshields Derrick W
Type
Individual
Address
814 Country Club Rd
Pickens, SC 29671-9072

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

1997-03-06Cessna 180 · 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