Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-B
N1508W is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-B, a balloon with no engine, built in 1982. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Lexington, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 12, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-B · all FIREFLY 7-Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- F7B-002
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A0CDB4 (octal 50146664)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 12, 1982
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00973471
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Baker Carmen W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 390 Highland Dr
Lexington, NC 27292-9354
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N1508W, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Baker Carmen W, an individual, certificate issued May 24, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 12, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7B-002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1508W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 707-347C (serial 20317, cancelled February 5, 1975). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1508W. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data