Balloon 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7B-15 · all FIREFLY 7B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7B-379
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A23891 (octal 50434221)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 20, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 12, 1997
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00406861
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scott Michael R
- Type
- Co-owned
- 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.
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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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW02LA240 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data