Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7-15
N21847 is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2005. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Waterloo, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 11, 2008 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 9, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-2051
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A1DA3E (octal 50355076)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 11, 2008
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · February 9, 2005
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00153719
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Allbaugh Laurie B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 227 Southbrooke Dr Apt 4
Waterloo, IA 50702-5826
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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 3
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N21847, 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 Allbaugh Laurie B, an individual, certificate issued September 11, 2008, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 9, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-2051 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N21847 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Conrad William H PT-2 (serial PT1106, cancelled January 28, 1994); Cessna A188B (serial 18801073, cancelled April 3, 1973); Piper PA-34-200T (serial 347870451, cancelled date not given). 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 N21847. 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