Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N7202F is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Wamsutter, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 17, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-1077
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A9A630 (octal 52323060)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 17, 1999
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00755982
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rauch Seth J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 784 Riner Ave
Wamsutter, WY 82336-5031
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N7202F, 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 Rauch Seth J, an individual, certificate issued January 27, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 17, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-1077 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7202F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 2825109, cancelled March 15, 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 N7202F: Accident on June 5, 1990 at Caribbean Sea: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-140 · operated under 091
UNDETERMINED
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data