Raven S-60A
N4271A is a Raven S-60A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1983. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Slatington, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2012 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 26, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Raven
- Model
- S-60A · all S-60As and related versions
- Serial number
- S60A-223
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1983
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A5181C (octal 51214034)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 12, 2012
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 26, 1983
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00851894
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sommers Christopher A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 300 E Franklin St
Slatington, PA 18080-1831
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N4271A, 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 Sommers Christopher A, an individual, certificate issued September 12, 2012, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 26, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S60A-223 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4271A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A36 (serial E-208, cancelled March 25, 1970). 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 N4271A. 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