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N4202C

Firefly 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.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc
Model
FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
Serial number
F7-2076
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2025
Transponder code
A4FE40 (octal 51177100)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
December 23, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · March 13, 2025
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01483241

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Firefly Balloons 2010 INC
Type
Corporation
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

2013-09-27Sebby Rodny E R2 · Registration expired, pending cancellation
1990-04-16Cessna 414 · N-number assigned but not yet registered
1968-03-07Stinson 108-3 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Firefly Balloons 2010 INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 13, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-2076 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

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]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4202C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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