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N1523L

Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8

N1523L is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Burlington, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 9, 2003 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 11, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons Inc
Model
FIREFLY 8
Serial number
F8-2005
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A0D469 (octal 50152151)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 9, 2003
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
February 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · June 11, 2003
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00017649

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Leonard Ian Q
Type
Individual
Address
1544 Deer Run Trl
Burlington, NC 27217-9175

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.

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