Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7-15
N1518F is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Raleigh, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 11, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-2011
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0D15C (octal 50150534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 20, 2021
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 11, 2002
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00994047
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hollenbach Darby T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7004 Mine Creek Ln
Raleigh, NC 27615-6311
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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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1518F, 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 Hollenbach Darby T, an individual, certificate issued November 20, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-2011 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1518F was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-B (serial 10335, cancelled March 3, 1995); Cessna 185D (serial 185-0858, cancelled March 18, 1965). 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 N1518F. 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