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N32885

Balloon Works FIREFLY 7B-15

N32885 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7B-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Bristol, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 27, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 7B-15 · all FIREFLY 7B-15s and related versions
Serial number
F7B-380
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A38F96 (octal 50707626)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 21, 2024
Expires
December 31, 2031
Last FAA action
December 21, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · March 27, 1998
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00467081

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Marcia M Lombardi
Type
Individual
Address
682 Jerome Ave
Bristol, CT 06010-2669

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

1978-11-17Piper PA-28-151 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N32885, 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 Marcia M Lombardi, an individual, certificate issued December 21, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7B-380 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N32885 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-151 (serial 287515269, cancelled November 17, 1978). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N32885. 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