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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Raven S55A
N25QL is a Raven S55A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1983. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Hunterdon Ballooning INC, a corporation in Lebanon, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 7, 1983.
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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-1017
- 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
- 1983
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A2568E (octal 50453216)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 9, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 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 · October 7, 1983
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00511294
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hunterdon Ballooning 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
- PO Box 223
Lebanon, NJ 08833-0223
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N25QL 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
- Hunterdon Ballooning INC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Lebanon, NJ 9 aircraft registered in this town
- New Jersey 3,019 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Raven S55 2 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N25QL, 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 Hunterdon Ballooning INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 9, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 7, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S55A-1017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N25QL 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 N25QL: Accident on August 11, 2013 at Mont-St-Grégoire: fatal (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerostar International Inc. S-55A · operated under NUSN
On August 11, 2013, at 0730 eastern daylight time, an Aerostar International Inc. model S-55A, United States registration N25QL, serial number S55A1-1017, was not damaged when a member of the balloon ground-support team was fatally injured after falling to the ground from 100 feet near Mont-St-Grégoire, Québec, Canada. The pilot and passenger were not injured. The balloon was registered to and operated by the commercial pilot. Day visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight that departed near Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada, about 0650. The investigation is under the ju…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data