Balloon Works FIREFLY 7
N7414B is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Des Moines, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 24, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7 · all FIREFLY 7s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-282
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A9F927 (octal 52374447)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 13, 2019
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · February 24, 1986
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00302437
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Downey Lawrence C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2920 NE 46Th Ave
Des Moines, IA 50317-5452
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N7414B, 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 Downey Lawrence C, an individual, certificate issued March 13, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-282 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7414B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Champion 7EC (serial 7EC448, cancelled July 11, 1958). 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 N7414B. 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