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N27882

Raven S55A

Valid Minnesota

N27882 is a Raven S55A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1985. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Elysian, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2003 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 24, 1985.

Aircraft

Maker
Raven
Model
S55A
Serial number
S55A-1081
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1985
Cruising speed
60 mph
Transponder code
A2C7BF (octal 50543677)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 25, 2003
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · January 24, 1985
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00540795

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Knutson-Smisek Edward A
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 324
Elysian, MN 56028-0324

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

1970-05-15Piper J4A · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data