Raven Industries Inc S-66A
N57194 is a Raven Industries Inc S-66A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1980. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 10, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated August 25, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Raven Industries Inc
- Model
- S-66A · all S-66As and related versions
- Serial number
- S66A-115
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A755D0 (octal 51652720)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 10, 2012
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · August 25, 1994
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00990576
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nilz Patrick
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 534 W Sahuaro St
Tucson, AZ 85705-5444
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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 N57194, 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 Nilz Patrick, an individual, certificate issued April 10, 2012, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 25, 1994, 14 years after the 1980 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S66A-115 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N57194 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 N57194: Accident on March 16, 2012 at Avra Valley, AZ: minor injuries, substantial 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 Industries INC S-66A · operated under 091
The pilot's improper decision to partially open the balloon's vent before clearing a power line while landing, which resulted in the balloon descending too soon and contacting the power line.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR12LA138 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