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N16442

Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7B-15

Valid Tennessee

N16442 is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7B-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Knoxville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 14, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 31, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons Inc
Model
FIREFLY 7B-15
Serial number
F7B-2016
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A10389 (octal 50201611)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 14, 2023
Expires
December 31, 2030
Last FAA action
December 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · March 31, 2008
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00468409

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rainwater Anthony
Type
Co-owned
Address
3200 Rush Miller Rd
Knoxville, TN 37914-9772
Co-owners
Rainwater Tabatha

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.

Earlier use of this number 2

2003-03-11Piper PA-23-150 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1943-01-26Beech C17B · Valid registration

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