Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N3266D is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Hurdle Mills, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2012 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 7, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-896
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A387C8 (octal 50703710)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 6, 2012
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 7, 1996
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00385761
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Makhlouf Mary
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2131 Waterwheel Rd
Hurdle Mills, NC 27541-8907
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3266D, 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 Makhlouf Mary, an individual, certificate issued June 6, 2012, expires June 30, 2028. 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 F7-896 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3266D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180 (serial 32064, cancelled September 14, 1992). 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]
1 NTSB record under N3266D: Accident on July 28, 1992 at Eureka, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180 · operated under 091
THE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER AND UNDETERMINED REASONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC92LA127 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