Balloon Works FIREFLY 7
N90555 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1990. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 24, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7 · all FIREFLY 7s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-624
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1990
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- AC84E4 (octal 53102344)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 4, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 24, 1990
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00384871
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Holt Charles Glen
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 120 Behan St Apt C
Natchitoches, LA 71457-3912
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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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N90555, 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 Holt Charles Glen, an individual, certificate issued March 4, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 24, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-624 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N90555 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ronaasen N EMERAUDE CP-301 (serial NR01, cancelled August 3, 1988). 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 N90555: Accident on September 2, 1995 at Colorado Spgs, CO: 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
AN ENCOUNTER WITH A WIND SHIFT DURING LANDING.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW95LA376 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