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N32343

Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15

Valid Tennessee

N32343 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Monteagle, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 3, 1997 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 24, 1997.

Aircraft

Maker
Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
Serial number
F71011
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
1
Year built
1997
Transponder code
A37C75 (octal 50676165)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 3, 1997
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · June 24, 1997
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00736461

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cross Paul
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 99
Monteagle, TN 37356-0099

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N32343, 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 Cross Paul, an individual, certificate issued October 3, 1997, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 24, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F71011 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N32343 according to the deregistered file. [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 N32343. 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