Raven Industries Inc. RALLY RX7
N40515 is a Raven Industries Inc. RALLY RX7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1983. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Ace Aviation Adventures INC, a corporation in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 19, 2001 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 30, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Raven Industries Inc.
- Model
- RALLY RX7 · all RALLY RX7s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX7-312
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A4C1CD (octal 51140715)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 19, 2001
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 30, 1983
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00391144
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ace Aviation Adventures INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5757 Thomas Rd
Ann Arbor, MI 48108-9758
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N40515, 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 Ace Aviation Adventures INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 19, 2001, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 30, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX7-312 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40515 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 (serial 7954, cancelled September 29, 1981); Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-7405245, cancelled January 28, 1974). 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 N40515. 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 September 30, 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