Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N2581S is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Temecula, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 2, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-795
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A277C2 (octal 50473702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 12, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 2, 1993
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00734002
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Saul Garrett M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 32120 Paseo Parallon
Temecula, CA 92592-1027
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2581S, 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 Saul Garrett M, an individual, certificate issued January 12, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-795 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2581S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 337C (serial 3370881, cancelled February 13, 1990). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N2581S: Accident on November 14, 1986 at Phillipsburg, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 33TC · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC87LA033 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