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N542CU

Rvb Baloes E Inflaveis Ltda SS-23-SV

Valid Michigan

N542CU is a Rvb Baloes E Inflaveis Ltda SS-23-SV, a balloon with no engine, built in 2019. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Grandville, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 8, 2019.

Aircraft

Maker
Rvb Baloes E Inflaveis Ltda
Model
SS-23-SV
Serial number
RVB2019001
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2019
Transponder code
A6DF9F (octal 51557637)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 18, 2023
Expires
December 31, 2030
Last FAA action
December 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · April 8, 2019
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01293304

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jones Derrick J DBA
Type
Individual
Address
3977 Costen Ct
Grandville, MI 49418-8610
Co-owners
Reflections Hot Air Balloon Team

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N542CU, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Jones Derrick J DBA, an individual, certificate issued December 18, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated April 8, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RVB2019001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N542CU according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N542CU. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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