Balloon 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 6B · all FIREFLY 6Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 6740
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A4BB46 (octal 51135506)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 16, 2014
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00841104
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Balloons Over Iowa LTD
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 18999 Blue Pl
Carlisle, IA 50047-5452
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 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 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