Raven S-60A
N4198C is a Raven S-60A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1982. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Purcellville, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2015 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 18, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Raven
- Model
- S-60A · all S-60As and related versions
- Serial number
- S60A-218
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A4F902 (octal 51174402)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 22, 2015
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 18, 1982
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00771644
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vill Joseph E JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 19138 Otley Rd
Purcellville, VA 20132-3810
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N4198C, 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 Vill Joseph E JR, an individual, certificate issued September 22, 2015, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 18, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S60A-218 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4198C 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4198C. 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