Balloon Works FIREFLY 7
N7408G is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Chester, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2012 and expires on July 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7 · all FIREFLY 7s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-278
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A9F601 (octal 52373001)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2012
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00992347
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Boucher Jason D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7 E Derry Rd
Chester, NH 03036-4318
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N7408G, 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 Boucher Jason D, an individual, certificate issued July 19, 2012, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-278 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7408G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172K (serial 17259108, cancelled October 13, 1971). 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 N7408G: Accident on October 15, 2007 at East Hampstead, NH: serious injuries. 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: Balloon Works Firefly 7 · operated under 091
The pilot's excessive descent rate on approach, which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing factors were the adverse winds encountered during the flight, and the presence of the trees and power lines near the landing area.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI08CA017 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