Balloon Works FIREFLY 7
N37007 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 Leakey, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 1990 and expires on March 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 13, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7 · all FIREFLY 7s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-200
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1984
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A43643 (octal 51033103)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 15, 1990
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 13, 1984
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00013414
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lewis John R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 566
Leakey, TX 78873-0566
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N37007, 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 Lewis John R, an individual, certificate issued March 15, 1990, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 13, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-200 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N37007 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Boeing-Vertol CH47-308 (serial CG071, cancelled March 20, 1980); Luscombe 8A (serial 1668, cancelled January 5, 1949). 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 N37007. 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