{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2002-06-08","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2002-07-17","city":"MAXWELL AFB","country_code":"US","county_code":"101","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-07","maker":"Firefly Balloons Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FIREFLY BALLOONS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1050151","mode_s_code":"50150173","mode_s_hex":"A0D07B","model":"FIREFLY 7-15","n_number":"N15111","name":"CIVIL AIR PATROL","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"DENVER CITY","damage":"DEST","date":"1995-06-13","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW95LA241","probable_cause":"THE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER DUE TO A FRACTURE OF THE #3 CYLINDER RESULTING IN THE TOTAL FAILURE OF THE CYLINDER. A FACTOR WAS THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN FOR THE FORCED LANDING.","registration":"N15111","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on June 13, 1995 at Denver City, TX: no injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N15111 is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Civil Air Patrol, a corporation in Maxwell Afb, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2002 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 8, 2002.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Civil Air Patrol, a corporation, certificate issued July 17, 2002, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 8, 2002, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-2010 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N15111 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-401 (serial 4010830, cancelled January 14, 1997); Balloon Works FIREFLY 8-24 (serial F8003, cancelled April 13, 1990). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N15111: Accident on June 13, 1995 at Denver City, TX: no injuries, destroyed. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"F7-2010","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"105 S HANSELL ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00103837","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N15111","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2001,"zip":"361125937"}