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N71159

Balloon Works FIREFLY 7

Valid Alabama

N71159 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1988. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mountain Brook, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 1998 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 13, 1988.

Aircraft

Maker
Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 7
Serial number
F7-420
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1988
Cruising speed
63 mph
Transponder code
A982ED (octal 52301355)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 1, 1998
Expires
January 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · January 13, 1988
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00444051

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mccalla Darrell P
Type
Individual
Address
4224 Old Brook Trail
Mountain Brook, AL 35243

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 1

1965-05-21Luscombe 8A · Valid registration

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