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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Raven S55A
N1162R is a Raven S55A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1977. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Fort Collins, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 12, 1999 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 19, 1977.
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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-324
- 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
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A0452B (octal 50042453)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 12, 1999
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- 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 · April 19, 1977
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00711200
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Griffin Nancy O
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7935 Livingston Ln
Fort Collins, CO 80525-9370 - Co-owners
- Griffin Daniel J
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 N1162R 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
- Fort Collins, CO 165 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,455 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/N1162R.json.
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The public federal record on N1162R, 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 Griffin Nancy O, a co-owned, certificate issued October 12, 1999, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 19, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S55A-324 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1162R 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 N1162R. 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 October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data