Balloon Works FIREFLY 7
N4065K is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1979. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Ringoes, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 9, 1990 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 9, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7 · all FIREFLY 7s and related versions
- Serial number
- 10010
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A4C5FC (octal 51142774)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 9, 1990
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 9, 1979
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00511234
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hoffman Jeffrey W
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 33 Everitt Rd
Ringoes, NJ 08551-1815 - Co-owners
- Hoffman Susan L
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 1
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The public federal record on N4065K, 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 Hoffman Jeffrey W, a co-owned, certificate issued March 9, 1990, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 9, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10010 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4065K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC-6A (serial 44257, cancelled December 23, 1966). 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 N4065K: Accident on July 6, 1986 at Pandora, OH: serious injuries. 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 FF-7 · operated under 091
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- 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