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N273RB

Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15

N273RB is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Statesville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons Inc
Model
FIREFLY 8B-15
Serial number
F8B-2109
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A2B31A (octal 50531432)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 10, 2025
Expires
July 31, 2032
Last FAA action
April 12, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01033830

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sharpe Timothy M
Type
Individual
Address
224 Meadow Oaks Dr
Statesville, NC 28625-8720

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