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N2580N

Balloon Works FIREFLY 7B-15

Valid Missouri

N2580N is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1994. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Queen City, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 18, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 1, 1995.

Aircraft

Maker
Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 7B-15 · all FIREFLY 7B-15s and related versions
Serial number
F7B-355
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1994
Transponder code
A2779B (octal 50473633)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 18, 2024
Expires
May 31, 2031
Last FAA action
May 18, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · March 1, 1995
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00865182

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Oberman Michael W
Type
Individual
Address
17933 Prairie School Rd
Queen City, MO 63561-2164

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 2

1982-12-30Piper PA-38-112 · Valid registration
1949-07-25Cessna 120 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N2580N, 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 Oberman Michael W, an individual, certificate issued May 18, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 1, 1995, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7B-355 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2580N was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-38-112 (serial 38-79A0929, cancelled December 30, 1982); Cessna 120 (serial 12840, cancelled July 25, 1949). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N2580N. 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