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N2538K

Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15

Valid Nevada

N2538K is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1992. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Las Vegas, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2014 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 3, 1992.

Aircraft

Maker
Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
Serial number
F7-769
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1992
Transponder code
A2661D (octal 50463035)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 11, 2014
Expires
February 28, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · March 3, 1992
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00263832

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Keenan Thomas
Type
Individual
Address
4317 Ivory Cir
Las Vegas, NV 89130-2545

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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 · 5 clear

The public federal record on N2538K, 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 Keenan Thomas, an individual, certificate issued February 11, 2014, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 3, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-769 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N2538K 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 N2538K. 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