Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N32889 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Columbia Air Sports INC, a corporation in Columbia, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 21, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 6, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F71008
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A38F9A (octal 50707632)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 21, 2008
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · February 6, 1997
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00206331
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Columbia Air Sports INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2504 Cimarron Dr
Columbia, MO 65203-2984
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 N32889, 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 Columbia Air Sports INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 21, 2008, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 6, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F71008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N32889 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 287505101, cancelled March 26, 1993). 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 N32889: Accident on October 3, 1992 at Powell, WY: 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: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091
THE PILOT IN COMMAND'S FAILURE TO ASSURE CLEARANCE FROM THE RADIO TOWER. FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE THE MARKED TOWER AND THE PILOT IN COMMAND'S INADEQUATE VISUAL LOOKOUT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA93LA003 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
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