Raven S55A
N5563L is a Raven S55A, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 6, 2014 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 25, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Raven
- Model
- S55A · all S55As and related versions
- Serial number
- S55A-554
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A71881 (octal 51614201)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 6, 2014
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 25, 1979
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00370036
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Arman Marcelo A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12539 Darkwood Rd
San Diego, CA 92129-3727
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.
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The public federal record on N5563L, 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 Arman Marcelo A, an individual, certificate issued November 6, 2014, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S55A-554 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5563L 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]
1 NTSB record under N5563L: Accident on February 28, 1983 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries. 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 RX-7 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC83LA049 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data