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N5182U

Medema/Balloon Works FIREFLY 7

N5182U is a Medema/Balloon Works FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1987. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated September 19, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Medema/Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 7
Serial number
114
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
3
Year built
1987
Transponder code
A681D8 (octal 51500730)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 20, 2025
Expires
November 30, 2032
Last FAA action
June 23, 2026
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing · September 19, 2007
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00814141

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Scott Michael R
Type
Co-owned
Address
285 Tigris Rd NE
Rio Rancho, NM 87124-4802
Co-owners
Scott Josephine R

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

1980-05-16Cessna 172RG · exported to France · Valid registration
1964-05-26Cessna 206 · exported to Uruguay · Valid registration

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