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N5563K

Raven Industries Inc. S45A

Valid Kentucky

N5563K is a Raven Industries Inc. S45A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1979. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Bluegrass Balloons LLC, an LLC in Louisville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 2006 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 24, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Raven Industries Inc.
Model
S45A
Serial number
S45A-101
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
2
Year built
1979
Transponder code
A71880 (octal 51614200)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 29, 2006
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 24, 1980
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00670076

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bluegrass Balloons LLC
Type
LLC
Address
612 Wardshire Pl
Louisville, KY 40223-6119

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Documents on file 0

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

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