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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Balloon Works FIREFLY 6B
N4038R is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 6B, a balloon with no engine, built in 1978. It is registered to Balloons Over Iowa LTD, a corporation in Carlisle, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 16, 2014 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 6B · all FIREFLY 6Bs and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Balloon Works FIREFLY 6 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 6740
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A4BB46 (octal 51135506)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 16, 2014
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00841104
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Balloons Over Iowa LTD
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 18999 Blue Pl
Carlisle, IA 50047-5452
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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
Connections how N4038R links to the rest of the register
- Balloon Works FIREFLY 6 18 registered
- Balloon Works 565 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Balloons Over Iowa LTD 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Carlisle, IA 32 aircraft registered in this town
- Iowa 4,514 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Balloon Works FIREFLY 6 4 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Balloon Works FIREFLY 6 21 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N4038R.json.
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The public federal record on N4038R, 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 Balloons Over Iowa LTD, a corporation, certificate issued January 16, 2014, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6740 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4038R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 28-7105134, cancelled June 14, 1971); Piper PA-32-300 (serial 32-40333, cancelled December 9, 1968). 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 N4038R. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data