Balloon Works FIREFLY 7
N27109 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1977. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2012 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 25, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7 · all FIREFLY 7s and related versions
- Serial number
- 773
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A2ACAD (octal 50526255)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 22, 2012
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 25, 1977
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00183582
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hannigan Joyce J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4230 Hay Creek Rd
Colorado Springs, CO 80921-2374
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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 N27109, 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 Hannigan Joyce J, an individual, certificate issued October 22, 2012, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 25, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 773 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N27109 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N27109. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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