Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N7071M is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to University Of Central Missouri, a government body in Warrensburg, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 5, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-1080
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A97116 (octal 52270426)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2012
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 5, 2000
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00783573
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- University Of Central Missouri
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 281 NW 50 Hwy
Warrensburg, MO 64093 - Co-owners
- Department Of Aviation / Max B Swisher Skyhaven Airport
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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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N7071M, 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 University Of Central Missouri, a government body, certificate issued April 23, 2012, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 5, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-1080 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7071M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Britten-Norman BN-2A-21 (serial 402, cancelled September 13, 1995); Cessna 175 (serial 55371, cancelled October 15, 1958). 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 N7071M. 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