Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15
N7071C is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 21, 2014 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 23, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-587
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A9710D (octal 52270415)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 21, 2014
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 23, 1999
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00445952
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Voorhees Michael T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6320 Camino Alto NW
Albuquerque, NM 87120
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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 3
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The public federal record on N7071C, 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 Voorhees Michael T, an individual, certificate issued April 21, 2014, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 23, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-587 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7071C was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Britten-Norman BN-2A-21 (serial 400, cancelled April 14, 1995); Cessna T-37C (serial 41040, cancelled October 7, 1968); Piper PA-28-235 (serial 287610046, cancelled date not given). 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 N7071C: Accident on February 9, 1986 at Mcgrath, AK: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-235 · operated under 091
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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data