Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N3283E is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Dandridge, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 1998 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 20, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-1038
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A38ECE (octal 50707316)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 1998
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 20, 1998
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00667121
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lansdown Jeffrey L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2745 Forest Ridge Rd
Dandridge, TN 37725-6961
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3283E, 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 Lansdown Jeffrey L, an individual, certificate issued May 13, 1998, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 20, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-1038 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3283E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 11AC (serial 11AC1654, cancelled date not given). 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 N3283E: Accident on June 30, 1984 at Glens Falls, NY: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Aeronca 11AC · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC84FFA03 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