Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N72546 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 7, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-1088
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A9B922 (octal 52334442)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 3, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 3, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · August 7, 2000
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00095760
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Salgueiro Cristian
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3999 Amistad Dr
Las Cruces, NM 88005-3624
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 N72546, 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 Salgueiro Cristian, an individual, certificate issued May 3, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 7, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-1088 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N72546 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 9716, cancelled April 10, 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 N72546: Accident on July 18, 1995 at Danielsville, PA: 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: Cessna 140 · operated under 091
The flight crew's improper in-flight planning/decision, and failure to maintain adequate clearance (or altitude) from mountainous terrain. Factors relating to the accident were: darkness, fog, low clouds, and the high terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC95FA162 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