Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N31744 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Island Balloons INC, a corporation in Lanexa, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 21, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-893
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A363D3 (octal 50661723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 12, 2020
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 21, 1996
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00205791
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Island Balloons INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 8530 Hicks Island Rd
Lanexa, VA 23089-9011
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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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N31744, 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 Island Balloons INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 12, 2020, expires March 31, 2030. 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 F7-893 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N31744 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-200T (serial 347870265, cancelled January 27, 1993); Aeronca 65-TC (serial C6230T, cancelled November 10, 1955). 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 N31744. 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 September 30, 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