Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-B
N1544U is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-B, a balloon with no engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 22, 2000 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 2, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-B · all FIREFLY 7-Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 10270
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A0DC02 (octal 50156002)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 22, 2000
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 2, 1981
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00893200
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bouton Vern H
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 790 Cessna Way
Fairbanks, AK 99712-1423 - Co-owners
- Bouton Sherri L / Bouton Joshua H
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N1544U, 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 Bouton Vern H, a co-owned, certificate issued December 22, 2000, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 2, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10270 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1544U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna TU206F (serial U20602251, cancelled May 30, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1544U. 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