Balloon Works FIREFLY 6B
N40371 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 6B, a balloon with no engine, built in 1978. It is registered to co-owned owners in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 10, 1989 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 6B · all FIREFLY 6Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 6738
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A4BB2D (octal 51135455)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 10, 1989
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00901114
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bowman James A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 2500 SW 92Nd
Oklahoma City, OK 73159 - Co-owners
- Bowman Marian S
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N40371, 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 Bowman James A, a co-owned, certificate issued October 10, 1989, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6738 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N40371 according to the deregistered file. [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 N40371. 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