Balloon Works FIREFLY 7
N71159 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1988. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mountain Brook, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 1998 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 13, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7 · all FIREFLY 7s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-420
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1988
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A982ED (octal 52301355)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 1998
- Expires
- January 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 13, 1988
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00444051
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mccalla Darrell P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4224 Old Brook Trail
Mountain Brook, AL 35243
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 N71159, 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 Mccalla Darrell P, an individual, certificate issued April 1, 1998, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 13, 1988, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-420 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N71159 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8A (serial 2586, cancelled May 21, 1965). 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 N71159. 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