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N1527E

Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15

N1527E is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2003. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Statesville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 9, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons Inc
Model
FIREFLY 8B-15
Serial number
F8B-2037
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A0D4EF (octal 50152357)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 7, 2023
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
April 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 9, 2003
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00039919

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dunavent Duncan
Type
Individual
Address
813 Elmwood Rd
Statesville, NC 28625-1182

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 2

1994-06-29Cessna 172N · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1964-02-27Champion 7AC · exported to Canada · Valid registration

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