Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N3099G is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Carbondale, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 26, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 15, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F71003
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A3445B (octal 50642133)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 26, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 26, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 15, 1996
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00776211
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Glaeser Lilyan C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 606 S Emerald Ln
Carbondale, IL 62901-2145
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3099G, 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 Glaeser Lilyan C, an individual, certificate issued December 26, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 15, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F71003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3099G was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 150M (serial 15075996, cancelled November 25, 1992); Bell 47J-2A (serial 3312, cancelled March 15, 1989). 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 N3099G: Accident on October 4, 1992 at Three Points, AZ: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 150M · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S POOR JUDGMENT, INTENTIONAL BUZZING, AND POOR VISUAL LOOKOUT. CONTRIBUTING TO THIS ACCIDENT WAS THE PILOT'S DIVERTED ATTENTION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX93LA003 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