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N25272

Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15

Valid Ohio

N25272 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Ironton, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 20, 1992.

Aircraft

Maker
Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
Serial number
F7-768
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A26254 (octal 50461124)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 26, 2021
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · February 20, 1992
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00263792

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cleary Robert A
Type
Individual
Address
619 S 4Th St
Ironton, OH 45638-1841

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N25272, 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 Cleary Robert A, an individual, certificate issued August 26, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-768 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N25272 according to the deregistered file. [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 N25272. 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