Raven S55A
N4183G is a Raven S55A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1982. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Balloon Quest INC, a corporation in Fenton, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2008 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 23, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Raven
- Model
- S55A · all S55As and related versions
- Serial number
- S55A-881
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A4F4A0 (octal 51172240)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 14, 2008
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 23, 1982
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00701664
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Balloon Quest INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2470 Grange Hall Rd
Fenton, MI 48430-1634
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.
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The public federal record on N4183G, 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 Balloon Quest INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 14, 2008, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 23, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S55A-881 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4183G 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 N4183G: Accident on April 26, 1995 at Hutchinson, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate compensation for the wind conditions. Factors associated with the accident were the crosswind and soft terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI95TA151 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
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