Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S-55A
N3554D is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S-55A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1988. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Radcliffe, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 2, 1988 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 31, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RAVEN S-55A · all RAVEN S-55As and related versions
- Serial number
- S55A-3038
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1988
- Transponder code
- A3FA48 (octal 50775110)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 2, 1988
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 31, 1988
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00484141
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Drake Richard R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 303 East
Radcliffe, IA 50230
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N3554D, 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 Drake Richard R, an individual, certificate issued May 2, 1988, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 31, 1988, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S55A-3038 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3554D was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 170B (serial 27097, cancelled May 15, 1956); Piper PA-31-350 (serial 318052048, cancelled date not given). 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 N3554D. 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