Balloon Works FIREFLY 7
N1516T is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Davisburg, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 1982 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 15, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7 · all FIREFLY 7s and related versions
- Serial number
- 11088
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A0D122 (octal 50150442)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 18, 1982
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 15, 1981
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00183430
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Meteyer Richard L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7658 Dilley Rd
Davisburg, MI 48350
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N1516T, 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 Meteyer Richard L, an individual, certificate issued June 18, 1982, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 15, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11088 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1516T according to the deregistered file. [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 N1516T. 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 September 30, 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