Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N3286U 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 Albuquerque, New Mexico. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 9, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-1050
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A38F45 (octal 50707505)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 9, 1998
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00463656
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7908 Charger Trl NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109-3125
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 N3286U, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 9, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-1050 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3286U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182F (serial 18254686, cancelled May 15, 1963). 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 N3286U. 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 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