Balloon Works FIREFLY 7B-15
N7078S is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 2, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7B-15 · all FIREFLY 7B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7B-389
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A97210 (octal 52271020)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2019
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 2, 1999
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00925862
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Akin Jason B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 211 Ivan Ct NE
Rio Rancho, NM 87124-6345
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 N7078S, 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 Akin Jason B, an individual, certificate issued June 24, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 2, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7B-389 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7078S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 412 (serial 33179, cancelled July 21, 1995); Cessna 150 (serial 15067778, cancelled April 10, 1972). 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 N7078S. 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