Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B
N7405Q is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B, a balloon with no engine, built in 1987. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Greenville, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2003 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 8, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B · all FIREFLY 8Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-076
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A9F5A0 (octal 52372640)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2003
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 8, 1987
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00505520
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Loucks Charles J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 39 Terrain Dr
Greenville, SC 29605-6058
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N7405Q, 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 Loucks Charles J, an individual, certificate issued August 14, 2003, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 8, 1987, consistent with the 1987 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-076 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7405Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna U206F (serial U20602193, cancelled October 24, 1973). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N7405Q. 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