Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N514S is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 1, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 26, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-1089
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A671DB (octal 51470733)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 1, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 26, 2000
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00555790
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scott Michael R
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 285 Tigris Rd NE
Rio Rancho, NM 87124-4802 - Co-owners
- Scott Josephine R
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N514S, 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 Scott Michael R, a co-owned, certificate issued December 1, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 26, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-1089 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N514S according to the deregistered file. [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 N514S. 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