Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N70080 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Midland, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 29, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-1059
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A95817 (octal 52254027)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2019
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 29, 1998
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00443806
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- King John D
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 6555 Stoney Rd
Midland, VA 22728-1747 - Co-owners
- King Daniel A
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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 2
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The public federal record on N70080, 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 King John D, a co-owned, certificate issued January 31, 2019, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 29, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-1059 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N70080 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17267190, cancelled January 22, 1996); Timm N2T-1 (serial 213, cancelled February 20, 1956). 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 N70080: Accident on October 12, 1995 at Norwich, VT: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Cessna 172M · operated under 091
loss of engine power for undetermined reason(s), during a low altitude operation. A factor relating to the accident was: the lack of suitable terrain for a forced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data