Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N7185S is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Olathe, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 19, 2000 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 28, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-1082
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A99CDD (octal 52316335)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 19, 2000
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 28, 2000
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00593593
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smiley Bill
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 11915 W 143Rd Ter
Olathe, KS 66062-9413 - Co-owners
- Smiley Suzan
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 N7185S, 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 Smiley Bill, a co-owned, certificate issued April 19, 2000, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 28, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-1082 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7185S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150H (serial 15067885, cancelled February 23, 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]
1 NTSB record under N7185S: Accident on January 4, 1995 at Fayetteville, TN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150H · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER USE OF CARBURETOR HEAT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL95LA034 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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