Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N7180F is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 26, 2020 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 11, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-1090
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A99C23 (octal 52316043)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 26, 2020
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- July 14, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 11, 2000
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00565790
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- Individual
- Address
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N7180F, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued October 26, 2020, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 11, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-1090 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7180F according to the deregistered file. [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 N7180F. 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