Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15
N7252V is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 22, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-618
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A9B8D1 (octal 52334321)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 4, 2019
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 31, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 22, 2001
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00653634
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vanwye Kenneth Edward
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 2722 El Tesoro Escondido NW
Albuquerque, NM 87120-1533 - Co-owners
- Vanwye Sandra Edith
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N7252V, 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 Vanwye Kenneth Edward, a co-owned, certificate issued June 4, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 22, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-618 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7252V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Intermountain CALLAIR A-9B (serial 1307, cancelled March 15, 1985). 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 N7252V: Accident on June 1, 1984 at Maringouin, LA: 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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rockwell A-9B · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW84LA263 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