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N21953

Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7

Valid Virginia

N21953 is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine, built in 2003. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mechanicsville, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 22, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 18, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Firefly Balloons Inc
Model
FIREFLY 7
Serial number
F7-2024
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A1DE14 (octal 50357024)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 22, 2021
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · August 18, 2004
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00127659

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Snead David W
Type
Individual
Address
9370 Ruffin Ridge Rd
Mechanicsville, VA 23116-6641

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

1998-05-08Cessna 150L · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response
1955-10-19Porterfield CP-50 · Valid registration

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