Balloon Works FIREFLY 7
N7121M is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Columbia, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 1995 and expires on September 30, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7 · all FIREFLY 7s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-458
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A98602 (octal 52303002)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 9, 1995
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00514311
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Riley Theron A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6702 E Valley Cove
Columbia, MO 65202
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N7121M, 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 Riley Theron A, an individual, certificate issued February 9, 1995, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-458 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7121M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 175 (serial 55421, cancelled July 24, 1967). 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 N7121M. 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