One of his last activities had been his function as Deputy Event Director of the 3rd Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) Women's European Hot Air Balloon Championship in September 2015.

[1] In 1985, Levin got his "first crown" by winning the FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship in Battle Creek, Michigan.

"[5] With James Herschend Levin launched the balloon D-Aspen from Stuttgart, (Germany) on September 19, 1992, travelling 964.19 kilometres (599.12 mi), and landing near Przemyśl, Poland 45:36 hours later.

Twelve years later they had been succeeded by the American team Richard Abruzzo and Carol Rymer Davis, who disappeared in the 2010 competition.

With his brother Alan, he made a non-stop balloon flight from Albuquerque in New Mexico to the coast of Maine travelling 1,998 miles (3,215 km).

[7][1] David Levin was born in Newark, New Jersey on June 10, 1948, and grew up in South Orange, where he attended Columbia High School.