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N1516K

Balloon Works FIREFLY 7

Valid New York

N1516K is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Whitford L Chandler, a partnership in Wellsville, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 18, 2003 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 15, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 7
Serial number
11001
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1981
Cruising speed
63 mph
Transponder code
A0D11A (octal 50150432)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 18, 2003
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 29, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · July 15, 1981
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00023200

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Whitford L Chandler
Type
Partnership
Address
PO Box 663
Wellsville, NY 14895-0663
Co-owners
Simons Willard L

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data