Balloon Works FIREFLY 6B
N3738H is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 6B, a balloon with no engine, built in 1983. It is registered to an individual in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 7, 1984 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 14, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 6B · all FIREFLY 6Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- F6B-001
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 1983
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A44268 (octal 51041150)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 7, 1984
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 14, 1983
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00070014
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mccoy Timothy I
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 239 Shaler St
Pittsburgh, PA 15211
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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3738H, 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 Mccoy Timothy I, an individual, certificate issued December 7, 1984, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 14, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F6B-001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3738H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Mooney M20J (serial 24-0915, cancelled March 3, 1980); Ercoupe 415-C (serial 4363, cancelled October 14, 1947). 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 N3738H: Accident on February 10, 1984 at Butler, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Balloon Works FIRE FLY 6B · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC84LA139 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data