Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N7252H is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Cedar Crest, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 3, 2001 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 12, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-1103
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A9B8C5 (octal 52334305)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 3, 2001
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · February 12, 2001
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00643634
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Evans Timothy A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 1194
Cedar Crest, NM 87008-1194 - Co-owners
- Evans Regina
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N7252H, 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 Evans Timothy A, a co-owned, certificate issued July 3, 2001, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 12, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-1103 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7252H 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]
1 NTSB record under N7252H: Accident on October 10, 2018 at Placitas, NM: serious injuries. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to properly estimate the height of terrain while descending the balloon, which resulted in the balloon impacting a hill and passengers sustaining serious injuries.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR19TA005 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
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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