{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2002-03-21","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-05-09","city":"CARLISLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"181","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":"2029-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-04","maker":"Firefly Balloons Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FIREFLY BALLOONS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1050151","mode_s_code":"50150503","mode_s_hex":"A0D143","model":"FIREFLY 7-15","n_number":"N1517R","name":"BALLOONS OVER IOWA LTD","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"FRASER","damage":"SUBS","date":"1983-04-01","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI83LA159","probable_cause":"","registration":"N1517R","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on April 1, 1983 at Fraser, MI: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1517R is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Balloons Over Iowa LTD, a corporation in Carlisle, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2016 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 21, 2002.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Balloons Over Iowa LTD, a corporation, certificate issued May 9, 2016, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 21, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-2017 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N1517R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B (serial AA5B0017, cancelled date not given). 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 N1517R: Accident on April 1, 1983 at Fraser, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"F7-2017","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"18999 BLUE PL","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00904057","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1517R","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2002,"zip":"500475452"}