Balloon Works FIREFLY 7
N1527J 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 Rochester, New York. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 30, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7 · all FIREFLY 7s and related versions
- Serial number
- 10996
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A0D4F3 (octal 50152363)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 16, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 30, 1981
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00313200
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 110 Woodsmoke Ln
Rochester, NY 14612-1643
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1527J, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 30, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10996 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1527J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-23926, cancelled September 10, 1973). 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 N1527J. 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