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N21926

Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7-15

Valid Iowa

N21926 is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2003. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Johnston, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 13, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 29, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons Inc
Model
FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
Serial number
F7-2035
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A1DDAE (octal 50356656)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 13, 2025
Expires
October 31, 2032
Last FAA action
October 13, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · December 29, 2003
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00080659

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pedersen Tyler
Type
Individual
Address
6490 Merle Hay Rd Unit 221
Johnston, IA 50131-2529

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 2

1984-06-15Cessna 150L · Administratively canceled
1947-09-29Beech D17S · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N21926, 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 Pedersen Tyler, an individual, certificate issued October 13, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 29, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-2035 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N21926 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 150L (serial 15074542, cancelled June 15, 1984); Beech D17S (serial 418, cancelled September 29, 1947). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N21926. 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 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