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N3282X

Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15

Valid Tennessee

N3282X is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Knoxville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 7, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 8B-15
Serial number
F8B-561
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1998
Transponder code
A38EBC (octal 50707274)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 26, 2026
Expires
August 31, 2033
Last FAA action
August 26, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · October 7, 1998
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00853676

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rainwater Anthony
Type
Co-owned
Address
3200 Rush Miller Rd
Knoxville, TN 37914-9772
Co-owners
Rainwater Tabatha

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