Raven Industries Inc. RX6
N1884R is a Raven Industries Inc. RX6, a balloon with no engine, built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 13, 1987 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 29, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Raven Industries Inc.
- Model
- RX6 · all RX6s and related versions
- Serial number
- RX6-266
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A16158 (octal 50260530)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 13, 1987
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 29, 1978
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00492780
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Burgess Richard L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 821 Everest Rd SE
Rio Rancho, NM 87124-3173
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N1884R, 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 Burgess Richard L, an individual, certificate issued October 13, 1987, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 29, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX6-266 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1884R 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]
1 NTSB record under N1884R: Accident on July 25, 1982 at Albuquerque, NM: serious injuries. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Raven RX-6 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW82DQA23 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data