Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7-15
N15111 is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Civil Air Patrol, a corporation in Maxwell Afb, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2002 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 8, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-2010
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A0D07B (octal 50150173)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 17, 2002
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 8, 2002
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00103837
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Civil Air Patrol
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 105 S Hansell St
Maxwell Afb, AL 36112-5937
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N15111, 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 Civil Air Patrol, a corporation, certificate issued July 17, 2002, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 8, 2002, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-2010 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N15111 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-401 (serial 4010830, cancelled January 14, 1997); Balloon Works FIREFLY 8-24 (serial F8003, cancelled April 13, 1990). 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]
1 NTSB record under N15111: Accident on June 13, 1995 at Denver City, TX: no injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor AT-401 · operated under 137
THE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER DUE TO A FRACTURE OF THE #3 CYLINDER RESULTING IN THE TOTAL FAILURE OF THE CYLINDER. A FACTOR WAS THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN FOR THE FORCED LANDING.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW95LA241 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data