Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7-15
N21969 is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2004. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Clive, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 30, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 20, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-2045
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A1DE3D (octal 50357075)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 30, 2006
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 20, 2004
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00129199
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Patterson Todd M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1659 NW 91St St
Clive, IA 50325-6221 - Co-owners
- Patterson Errin J
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
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The public federal record on N21969, 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 Patterson Todd M, a co-owned, certificate issued May 30, 2006, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 20, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-2045 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N21969 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150L (serial 15074577, cancelled March 2, 1999). 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]
1 NTSB record under N21969: Accident on February 14, 1990 at Arlington, TX: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150L · operated under 091
POOR JUDGEMENT OF THE PILOT AFTER CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE, HIS DECISION TO MAKE LOW PASSES AT NIGHT (BUZZING), FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN PROPER ALTITUDE, AND DIVERSION OF HIS ATTENTION. DARKNESS WAS A RELATED FACTOR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW90LA070 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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