{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1984-08-14","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2018-10-17","city":"PRINCETON","country_code":"US","county_code":"095","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"Raven Industries Inc.","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RAVEN INDUSTRIES INC.","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7480503","mode_s_code":"51206666","mode_s_hex":"A50DB6","model":"RALLY RX7","n_number":"N4246S","name":"FLIGHT EXPO INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4246S is a Raven Industries Inc. RALLY RX7, a balloon with no engine, built in 1984. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Flight Expo INC, a corporation in Princeton, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 14, 1984.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Flight Expo INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 17, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 14, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX7-352 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4246S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-76 (serial 760021, cancelled November 5, 1979). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N4246S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"RX7-352","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"31340 125TH ST NW","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00861544","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4246S","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1984,"zip":"553713329"}