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N3120Y

Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15

Valid Virginia

N3120Y is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Blue Ridge Hot Air Balloons LLC, an LLC in Front Royal, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 16, 1996.

Aircraft

Maker
Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
Serial number
F7-910
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1996
Transponder code
A350AE (octal 50650256)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 16, 2018
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · July 16, 1996
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00536051

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Blue Ridge Hot Air Balloons LLC
Type
LLC
Address
552 Milldale Hollow Rd
Front Royal, VA 22630-7309

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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

1991-10-17Bell 206L-3 · exported to Mexico · Valid registration
1982-11-05Sikorsky S-76 · exported to Indonesia · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N3120Y, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Blue Ridge Hot Air Balloons LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 16, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 16, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-910 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3120Y was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206L-3 (serial 51503, cancelled October 17, 1991); Sikorsky S-76 (serial 760194, cancelled November 5, 1982). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3120Y. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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