N1503V (Balloon Works FIREFLY 7) — routes, history & safety record

Registrations are reused: the FAA register shows 2 earlier aircraft with this mark, the last exported to Canada on December 11, 1974.

FlightFinder has no observed route profile for this registration. The documented safety events below are available independently of live flight tracking.

Safety history

December 24, 1961AccidentHull loss
On December 24, 1961, N1503V, a Kodiak Airways, Inc., Grumman G-21A, a twin engine six-place amphibian crashed shortly after initial lift-off while making a water takeoff from Old Harbor, Kodiak Island, Alaska. One passenger seated in the cockpit was thrown into the water and drowned.
Grumman G-21A Goose · 1 fatalities
The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was an improperly executed takeoff which resulted in an inadvertent descent into the water. This produced a high-speed low-angle porpoise from which the pilot was unable to recover. Full accident record