Balloon Works FIREFLY 7B-15
N71912 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7B-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Mount Gilead, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 11, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 3, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7B-15 · all FIREFLY 7B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7B-391
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A9A012 (octal 52320022)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 11, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 11, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 3, 2000
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00486000
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tyo Gary
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 5569 US Highway 42
Mount Gilead, OH 43338-9690 - Co-owners
- Bucher-Tyo Kimberly
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N71912, 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 Tyo Gary, a co-owned, certificate issued September 11, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7B-391 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N71912 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 N71912. 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