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N4196B

Raven S55A

Valid Kansas

N4196B is a Raven S55A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1982. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Costello Paul E, a partnership in Topeka, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2000 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated January 21, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
Raven
Model
S55A
Serial number
S55A-931
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1982
Cruising speed
60 mph
Transponder code
A4F8BB (octal 51174273)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 16, 2000
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing · January 21, 2010
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00831624

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Costello Paul E
Type
Partnership
Address
3900 SW Nottingham Rd
Topeka, KS 66610-1461
Co-owners
Goodnow Connie R / Costello Lana M

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

1972-12-22Aero Commander 520 · exported to Liberia · Valid registration

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