Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N3119H is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Empty Pockets Balloon Team LLC, an LLC in Gallup, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2009 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 27, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-884
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A34E23 (octal 50647043)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2009
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 27, 1995
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00255582
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Empty Pockets Balloon Team LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 4962
Gallup, NM 87305-4962
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3119H, 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 Empty Pockets Balloon Team LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 30, 2009, expires April 30, 2029. 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 F7-884 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3119H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206L-3 (serial 51505, cancelled October 17, 1991); Engineering & Research ERCOUPE 415-C (serial 3744, cancelled October 9, 1950). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3119H. 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