Raven S-50A
N51476 is a Raven S-50A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bryan, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 8, 1973 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 30, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Raven
- Model
- S-50A · all S-50As and related versions
- Serial number
- S50A-200
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A673B7 (octal 51471667)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 8, 1973
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 30, 1973
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00041465
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wheeler James H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 15482 County Road D50
Bryan, OH 43506-9445
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 N51476, 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 Wheeler James H, an individual, certificate issued June 8, 1973, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 30, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S50A-200 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51476 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T-50 (serial 5858, cancelled December 12, 1955). 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 N51476. 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