Balloon Works FIREFLY 7B-15
N31527 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Bonner Springs, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2010 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 19, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7B-15 · all FIREFLY 7B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7B-378
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A35C22 (octal 50656042)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 2010
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 19, 1997
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00836841
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hutchinson Brian
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 16804 Kreider Rd
Bonner Springs, KS 66012-7670 - Co-owners
- Hutchinson Lori
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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N31527, 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 Hutchinson Brian, a co-owned, certificate issued May 13, 2010, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 19, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7B-378 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N31527 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech 1900C (serial UC51, cancelled September 14, 1992); Aerotek PITTS S-2A (serial 2257, cancelled August 26, 1982). 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 N31527. 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