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N7002J

Eagle Balloons Corp C-7

Valid New York

N7002J is an Eagle Balloons Corp C-7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Gowanda, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 1982 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 30, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Eagle Balloons Corp
Model
C-7 · all C-7s and related versions
Serial number
E81717
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1981
Transponder code
A95735 (octal 52253465)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 16, 1982
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · December 30, 1981
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00640617

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Butera Joseph P
Type
Co-owned
Address
10961 Miller Rd
Gowanda, NY 14070-9616
Co-owners
Butera Betsey B

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N7002J, 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 Butera Joseph P, a co-owned, certificate issued June 16, 1982, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 30, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial E81717 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7002J according to the deregistered file. [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 N7002J. 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