Balloon Works FIREFLY 7
N9069N is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1989. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Hampton, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 4, 1989 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 6, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7 · all FIREFLY 7s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-481
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1989
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- AC8916 (octal 53104426)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 4, 1989
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 6, 1989
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00584491
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mott Terry W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2038 Highway 3 Apt A
Hampton, IA 50441-7239
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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
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The public federal record on N9069N, 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 Mott Terry W, an individual, certificate issued May 4, 1989, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 6, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-481 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9069N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 (serial 0179, cancelled date not given). 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 N9069N: Accident on January 31, 1983 at Dyersburg, TN: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Robinson R-22 · operated under 091
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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data