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N71113

Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B

N71113 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B, a balloon with no engine, built in 1987. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Avian Balloon Company INC, a corporation in East Bend, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 26, 1996 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 31, 1987.

Aircraft

Maker
Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 8B
Serial number
F8B-117
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1987
Transponder code
A9825B (octal 52301133)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 26, 1996
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · August 31, 1987
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00993921

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Avian Balloon Company INC
Type
Corporation
Address
3031 Black Diamond Ln
East Bend, NC 27018-8822

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 1

1965-09-13Luscombe 8F · Valid registration

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