Balloon Works FIREFLY 8
N7053Z is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Star Ballooning LLC, an LLC in Bridgewater, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 26, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 30, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8 · all FIREFLY 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8-427
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A969FA (octal 52264772)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 26, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 30, 1998
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00033896
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Star Ballooning LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7481 Cam Bell Rd
Bridgewater, VA 22812-3216
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N7053Z, 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 Star Ballooning LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 26, 2020, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 30, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8-427 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7053Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-25-235 (serial 252822, cancelled October 29, 1991). 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 N7053Z. 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