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N1526Z

Balloon Works FIREFLY 7

Valid Colorado

N1526Z 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 Mounument, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 1992 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 17, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 7 · all FIREFLY 7s and related versions
Serial number
11085
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1981
Cruising speed
63 mph
Transponder code
A0D4DF (octal 50152337)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 9, 1992
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · December 17, 1981
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00874310

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hannigan Jerome W
Type
Individual
Address
19360 Spring Valley Rd
Mounument, CO 80132

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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 N1526Z, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Hannigan Jerome W, an individual, certificate issued September 9, 1992, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 17, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11085 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1526Z according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1526Z. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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