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N74071

Balloon Works FIREFLY 7

Valid Colorado

N74071 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Centennial, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 14, 1986.

Aircraft

Maker
Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 7 · all FIREFLY 7s and related versions
Serial number
F7-308
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
63 mph
Transponder code
A9F5F1 (octal 52372761)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 31, 2017
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · March 14, 1986
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00032357

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hill Martin JR
Type
Co-owned
Address
5147 S Ventura Way
Centennial, CO 80015-2316
Co-owners
Hill Therese J

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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

1971-01-04Many Miles I · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N74071, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Hill Martin JR, a co-owned, certificate issued August 31, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-308 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N74071 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Many Miles I (serial 1, cancelled January 4, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N74071. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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