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N5716N

Raven S55A

N5716N is a Raven S55A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1980. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Ona, West Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2000 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 25, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Raven
Model
S55A
Serial number
S55A-703
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1980
Cruising speed
60 mph
Transponder code
A75557 (octal 51652527)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 25, 2000
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · September 25, 1980
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00810546

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bauer William S
Type
Individual
Address
1 Fair Skys Dr
Ona, WV 25545-1500

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

1970-10-26Piper J3C-65 · Valid registration

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