Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7-15
N1517R is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Balloons Over Iowa LTD, a corporation in Carlisle, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2016 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 21, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-2017
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A0D143 (octal 50150503)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 9, 2016
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 21, 2002
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00904057
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Balloons Over Iowa LTD
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 18999 Blue Pl
Carlisle, IA 50047-5452
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1517R, 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 Balloons Over Iowa LTD, a corporation, certificate issued May 9, 2016, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 21, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-2017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1517R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B (serial AA5B0017, cancelled date not given). 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 N1517R: Accident on April 1, 1983 at Fraser, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman AA-5B · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI83LA159 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
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