Raven S55A
N4196B is a Raven S55A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1982. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Costello Paul E, a partnership in Topeka, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2000 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated January 21, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Raven
- Model
- S55A · all S55As and related versions
- Serial number
- S55A-931
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A4F8BB (octal 51174273)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 16, 2000
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · January 21, 2010
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00831624
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Costello Paul E
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 3900 SW Nottingham Rd
Topeka, KS 66610-1461 - Co-owners
- Goodnow Connie R / Costello Lana M
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4196B, 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 Costello Paul E, a partnership, certificate issued November 16, 2000, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 21, 2010, 28 years after the 1982 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S55A-931 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4196B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aero Commander 520 (serial 520-107, cancelled December 22, 1972). 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 N4196B. 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