Balloon Works FIREFLY 7
N3637Y is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1984. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Eaton, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 21, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 19, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7 · all FIREFLY 7s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-175
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1984
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A41AD5 (octal 51015325)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 21, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 21, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 19, 1984
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00280734
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mahoney Kade J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12733 County Road 76
Eaton, CO 80615-8507
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3637Y, 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 Mahoney Kade J, an individual, certificate issued November 21, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 19, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-175 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3637Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 210 (serial 21058137, cancelled January 26, 1971). 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 N3637Y. 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