Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-B
N1524U is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-B, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Amarillo, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 2020 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 14, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-B · all FIREFLY 7-Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 10311
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0D494 (octal 50152224)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 4, 2020
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 14, 1981
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00863200
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Goodman Travis W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3519 Vantage Ln
Amarillo, TX 79109-4134
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 · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1524U, 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 Goodman Travis W, an individual, certificate issued November 4, 2020, expires November 30, 2027. 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 10311 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1524U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna U206F (serial U20602235, cancelled July 31, 1974). 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 N1524U: Accident on April 3, 1982 at Masterson, TX: serious injuries, minor 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: Balloon Works 7-B · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW82DQG17 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