Raven S-50A
N1977R is a Raven S-50A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1972. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pleasant Lake, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 2011 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 20, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Raven
- Model
- S-50A · all S-50As and related versions
- Serial number
- S50A-189
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A18589 (octal 50302611)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 2011
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 20, 1972
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00923050
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Robb Ronny L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3244 Park Dr
Pleasant Lake, MI 49272-9606
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N1977R, 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 Robb Ronny L, an individual, certificate issued February 10, 2011, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 20, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S50A-189 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1977R 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 N1977R. 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 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data