Balloon Works FIREFLY 7
N7423D is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Statesville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 5, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7 · all FIREFLY 7s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-291
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A9FCBD (octal 52376275)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 17, 2017
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 5, 1986
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00132467
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Litton David B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4385 Taylorsville Hwy
Statesville, NC 28625-1843
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N7423D, 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 Litton David B, an individual, certificate issued January 17, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. 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 F7-291 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7423D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-150 (serial 22-5184, cancelled March 14, 1972). 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 N7423D: Accident on February 24, 2017 at Statesville, NC: 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 student pilot’s decision to place one foot on the balloon basket and one foot on the floor during the landing, which resulted in a broken ankle.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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