Raven S-60A
N4270A is a Raven S-60A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1984. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hollywood, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 24, 1995 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 11, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Raven
- Model
- S-60A · all S-60As and related versions
- Serial number
- S60A-289
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1984
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A517F9 (octal 51213771)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 24, 1995
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 11, 1984
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00511904
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ross Fred
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7920 NW 38 Ct
Hollywood, FL 33024
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 N4270A, 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 Ross Fred, an individual, certificate issued January 24, 1995, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 11, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S60A-289 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4270A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC-3C-R-1830-92 (serial 20058, cancelled April 27, 1961). 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]
1 NTSB record under N4270A: Accident on January 5, 1985 at Pompano Beach, FL: serious injuries, minor 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: Raven S-60A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA85LA072 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