Asheville Balloon Company

10/12/2024

To all of our friends and fellow Balloonists it’s with deep regret that we must close until next year. It will take a while to recover from Helene . We’re looking forward to coming back bigger and stronger next year. Please pray for all of Asheville.

08/24/2024

Awesome flight this morning with box winds

11/08/2023

Great flight this morning!

10/03/2023

09/22/2023

Christina sent us some beautiful photos from this morning's hot air flight.

09/14/2023

At the last ever Reno air races with my buddy Eddie Kurtzel. He owns this beautiful WWII British firefly . It's the only one in the world still flying!

09/14/2023

At the last ever Reno air races . This is my buddies WWII FIRFLY . It's the only one on the world still flying .

08/10/2023

We're going to be at High Cotton for a fundraiser on August 19th. Come and help Gail fight the battle of her life. https://gofund.me/5cf9a394
www.facebook.com/highcottonnc

07/27/2023

Oh-what-a-beautiful- !😀

07/17/2023

Well so much for my blueberry bush

07/13/2023

It's a bird, It's a plane, it's SUPER BALLOONS!

06/27/2023

Our deepest sympathy to Tom Mackie, the owner of Asheville Balloon Company, and to his family for their tragic loss.

The brutal stabbing death of a dog Monday afternoon while its owner played pickleball at a north Asheville park has highlighted the city’s continuing struggles with aggressive, violent behaviors by seemingly unbalanced people, police and witnesses to the crime say. James Wesley Henry, 43, faces a ...

06/10/2023

If you do want to follow Jonathan Wright's hot air balloon competition next week go to watchmefly.net and look for the US Nationals. Tuesday through Friday.

The home of competition ballooning

06/09/2023

Competitive , Jonathan Wright flew with us today.
More about Jonathan:
https://starherald.com/news/local/balloon-pilot-looking-for-a-win-at-u-s-national-championship/article_65d3fca8-0d0c-11ed-accc-a3ea51ac97a5.html

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06/03/2023

05/07/2023

Beautiful Flight this morning

05/07/2023

Beautiful Launch for Asheville Balloon Company

04/22/2023

https://www.cnn.com/videos/sports/2023/04/18/kriss-kyle-bmx-bowl-hot-air-balloon-spt-intl-lon-orig.cnn

Scottish BMX star Kriss Kyle has taken his sport to new heights with his latest stunt, performing tricks 2,000ft in the air on a special platform hanging from one of the world's largest hot air balloons.

04/21/2023

We had a beautiful flight from the Hominy Valley Singing Grounds this morning.

03/30/2023

28 March 1910 March 28, 2023AviationÉtang de Berre, Fabre Hydroavian, Float Plane, Gnome Omega, Henri Marie Léonce Fabre, Hydroavian, Le Canard, Musée de l'air et de l'espace, Seaplane, Société des Moteurs GnomeBryan Swopes A restored image of Henri Fabre flying his Hydroavian, le Canard, at É...

02/12/2023

Mom testing out my brand new 2023 Laissez Boy !!!!

11/21/2022

On this day in 1783, the first human beings to take to the air in free flight did so aboard a Montgolfier balloon from the garden of the Chateau de la Muette.

11/21/2022

11/21/2022

Happy Montgolfière day !!! it was 239 years ago today when the first manned Balloon took off from Paris. I can't think of a better way to celebrate than to go up and balloon and  celebrate after with a glass of champagne.