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N32824

Balloon Works FIREFLY 7B-15

Valid Colorado

N32824 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1995. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 28, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 10, 1995.

Aircraft

Maker
Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 7B-15 · all FIREFLY 7B-15s and related versions
Serial number
F7B-362
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1995
Transponder code
A38EC3 (octal 50707303)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 28, 2011
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · October 10, 1995
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00525641

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lillard Larry J
Type
Individual
Address
2650 Oro Blanco Dr
Colorado Springs, CO 80917-4025

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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 N32824, 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 Lillard Larry J, an individual, certificate issued June 28, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 10, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7B-362 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N32824 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 N32824. 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