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N21824

Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15

N21824 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 Littleton, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2004 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 3, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons Inc
Model
FIREFLY 8B-15
Serial number
F8B-2052
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A1D9F5 (octal 50354765)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 12, 2004
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · February 3, 2004
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00072859

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Thornton Ronald
Type
Individual
Address
10 Uplands Rd
Littleton, MA 01460-1117

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 3

1991-04-10Bell 206B-III · exported to Japan · Valid registration
1973-01-02Cessna A188B · exported to Portugal · Valid registration
1955-10-06Piper J3C-50 · Valid registration

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