Balloon Works FIREFLY 7B-15
N7076R is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Indianola, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 7, 2004 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 23, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7B-15 · all FIREFLY 7B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7B-383
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A971C9 (octal 52270711)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 7, 2004
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 23, 1998
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00843866
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bertsch Christine R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9252 Highway 92
Indianola, IA 50125-7011
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 N7076R, 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 Bertsch Christine R, an individual, certificate issued July 7, 2004, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 23, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7B-383 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7076R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerovodochody L-29 DELFIN (serial 2815, cancelled May 21, 1996). 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 N7076R. 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