Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-B
N37443 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-B, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Indianapolis, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 1988 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 5, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-B · all FIREFLY 7-Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- F7B-093
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A445A7 (octal 51042647)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 29, 1988
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 5, 1986
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00250734
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Engleman Mark T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10144 Hickory Leaf Rd
Indianapolis, IN 46236-4143
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N37443, 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 Engleman Mark T, an individual, certificate issued March 29, 1988, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7B-093 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N37443 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna T207A (serial 20700590, cancelled June 11, 1980); Interstate S-1A (serial 288, cancelled October 10, 1955). 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 N37443. 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