Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N3110C is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Port Allen, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 13, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 24, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-888
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A34CE3 (octal 50646343)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 13, 2021
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 24, 1996
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00085761
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kent Karen S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4128 Rougon Rd
Port Allen, LA 70767-5217
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 N3110C, 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 Kent Karen S, an individual, certificate issued October 13, 2021, expires October 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 F7-888 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3110C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180 (serial 30909, cancelled March 19, 1993). 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 N3110C: Accident on February 10, 1990 at Portland, TX: 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 180 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS, WHICH RESULTED IN A FAILURE TO ATTAIN A FLARE DURING THE LANDING. THE UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITON WAS A RELATED FACTOR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW90LA066 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
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