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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 7-15
N4202C is a Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Firefly Balloons 2010 INC, a corporation in Statesville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 13, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s 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 Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 7 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
- F7-2076
- 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
- 1
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A4FE40 (octal 51177100)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- December 23, 2024
- 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 · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 13, 2025
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01483241
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Firefly Balloons 2010 INC
- 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
- 850 Meacham Rd
Statesville, NC 28677-2982
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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 3
Connections how N4202C links to the rest of the register
- Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 7 5 registered
- Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc 40 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Firefly Balloons 2010 INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to January 12, 2027
- Statesville, NC 80 aircraft registered in this town
- Statesville Regional · SVH
- North Carolina 7,132 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N4202C, 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 Firefly Balloons 2010 INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 13, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-2076 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4202C was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Sebby Rodny E R2 (serial 053, cancelled September 27, 2013); Cessna 414 (serial 4140518, cancelled April 16, 1990); Stinson 108-3 (serial 5202, cancelled March 7, 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 N4202C. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data