Raven S55A
N27882 is a Raven S55A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1985. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Elysian, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2003 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 24, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Raven
- Model
- S55A · all S55As and related versions
- Serial number
- S55A-1081
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1985
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A2C7BF (octal 50543677)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 25, 2003
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 24, 1985
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00540795
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Knutson-Smisek Edward A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 324
Elysian, MN 56028-0324
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N27882, 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 Knutson-Smisek Edward A, an individual, certificate issued August 25, 2003, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 24, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S55A-1081 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N27882 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J4A (serial 4-1104, cancelled May 15, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N27882. 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