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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Raven S55A
N1080R is a Raven S55A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Balloon Quest INC, a corporation in Fenton, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 31, 1976.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Raven
- Model
- S55A · all S55As and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Raven S55 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- S55A-270
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A024D4 (octal 50022324)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 16, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 31, 1976
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00780560
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Balloon Quest INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2470 Grange Hall Rd
Fenton, MI 48430-1634
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.
Connections how N1080R links to the rest of the register
- Raven S55 57 registered
- Raven 106 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Balloon Quest INC 10 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to February 3, 2027
- Fenton, MI 56 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,226 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Raven S55 2 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1080R.json.
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The public federal record on N1080R, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Balloon Quest INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 16, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 31, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S55A-270 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1080R according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1080R. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data