{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2012-07-19","city":"CHESTER","country_code":"US","county_code":"015","cruise_speed_mph":63,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2028-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-26","maker":"Balloon Works","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BALLOON WORKS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1050100","mode_s_code":"52373001","mode_s_hex":"A9F601","model":"FIREFLY 7","n_number":"N7408G","name":"BOUCHER JASON D","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"East Hampstead","damage":"","date":"2007-10-15","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"CHI08CA017","probable_cause":"The pilot's excessive descent rate on approach, which resulted in a hard landing.  Contributing factors were the adverse winds encountered during the flight, and the presence of the trees and power lines near the landing area.","registration":"N7408G","state":"NH","summary":"Accident on October 15, 2007 at East Hampstead, NH: serious injuries.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N7408G is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Chester, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2012 and expires on July 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Boucher Jason D, an individual, certificate issued July 19, 2012, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-278 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N7408G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172K (serial 17259108, cancelled October 13, 1971). 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 N7408G: Accident on October 15, 2007 at East Hampstead, NH: serious injuries. 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":"New England","region_code":"E","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"F7-278","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NH","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7 E DERRY RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00992347","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N7408G","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"030364318"}