Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N70362 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Des Moines, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 12, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-1083
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A962F8 (octal 52261370)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 9, 2017
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 12, 2000
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00573593
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Green Michael L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 331 Fleetwood Dr
Des Moines, IA 50315-2836
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N70362, 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 Green Michael L, an individual, certificate issued February 9, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 12, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-1083 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N70362 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 207A (serial 20700549, cancelled December 13, 1982); Piper J3C-65 (serial 17348, cancelled December 30, 1949). 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 N70362. 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 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