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N830AL

Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15

Valid Illinois

N830AL is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Niles, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 9, 1998 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 30, 1997.

Aircraft

Maker
Balloon Works
Model
FIREFLY 7-15
Serial number
F71028
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1997
Transponder code
AB5865 (octal 52654145)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 9, 1998
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
October 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · September 30, 1997
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00936811

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Zielinski Alan Wayne
Type
Individual
Address
7640 N Milwaukee Ave
Niles, IL 60714-3133

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

1998-04-07Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response

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