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N9089K

Balloon Works FIREFLY 7

Valid Colorado

N9089K is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1989. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Dekoevend Enterprises, a corporation in Fort Garland, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2008 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 30, 1989.

Aircraft

Maker
Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 7 · all FIREFLY 7s and related versions
Serial number
F7-604
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
1
Year built
1989
Cruising speed
63 mph
Transponder code
AC9081 (octal 53110201)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 4, 2008
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · June 30, 1989
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00284681

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dekoevend Enterprises
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 117
Fort Garland, CO 81133-0117

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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 2

1956-02-14Stinson 108-1 · Valid registration
—Piper PA-28-161 · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9089K, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Dekoevend Enterprises, a corporation, certificate issued March 4, 2008, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 30, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-604 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9089K was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Stinson 108-1 (serial 108-2089, cancelled February 14, 1956); Piper PA-28-161 (serial 2816002, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N9089K. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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