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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Balloon Works FIREFLY 7B-15
N242MS is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 20, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 12, 1997.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7B-15 · all FIREFLY 7B-15s and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- F7B-379
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A23891 (octal 50434221)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 20, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 12, 1997
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00406861
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scott Michael R
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 285 Tigris Rd NE
Rio Rancho, NM 87124-4802 - Co-owners
- Scott Josephine R
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N242MS links to the rest of the register
- Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 345 registered
- Balloon Works 565 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rio Rancho, NM 120 aircraft registered in this town
- New Mexico 3,105 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 1 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N242MS.json.
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The public federal record on N242MS, 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 Scott Michael R, a co-owned, certificate issued October 20, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 12, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7B-379 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N242MS according to the deregistered file. [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 N242MS: Accident on August 27, 2002 at Oklahoma City, OK: serious injuries. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Balloon Works FireFly 7B-15 · operated under 091
the pilot's inadvertent flight into adverse weather conditions resulting in a hard landing. A contributing factor was the high wind.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data