Raven Industries Inc. RALLY RX7
N2801A is a Raven Industries Inc. RALLY RX7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1985. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Lovington, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2006 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 26, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Raven Industries Inc.
- Model
- RALLY RX7 · all RALLY RX7s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX7-440
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- A2D077 (octal 50550167)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 9, 2006
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 26, 1985
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00911565
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Jim D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4003 Plains Hwy
Lovington, NM 88260-9712
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N2801A, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Smith Jim D, an individual, certificate issued June 9, 2006, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 26, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX7-440 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2801A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180 (serial 30001, cancelled May 2, 1958). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2801A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data