Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N31271 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 1997 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 24, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F71004
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A351A6 (octal 50650646)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 23, 1997
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 24, 1996
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00786211
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Allison J R
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 5012 Olsen Pl NW
Albuquerque, NM 87114-4321 - Co-owners
- Allison Debbie
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N31271, 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 Allison J R, a co-owned, certificate issued January 23, 1997, 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 F71004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N31271 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]
1 NTSB record under N31271: Accident on December 16, 1994 at Ulysses, KS: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion (Acac) CITABRIA 7-GCBC · operated under 091
the pilots improper use of brakes during practice landings, and his lack of total experience in tail wheel equipped airplanes.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI95LA059 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