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N65AB

Raven S55A

Valid Indiana

N65AB is a Raven S55A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1983. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Columbus, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 27, 2018 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 12, 1983.

Aircraft

Maker
Raven
Model
S55A · all S55As and related versions
Serial number
S55A-1023
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1983
Cruising speed
60 mph
Transponder code
A88A63 (octal 52105143)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 27, 2018
Expires
December 31, 2028
Last FAA action
July 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · December 12, 1983
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00262486

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gallant Michael T
Type
Individual
Address
2525 Cedarridge Dr
Columbus, IN 47203-2265

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N65AB, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Gallant Michael T, an individual, certificate issued December 27, 2018, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 12, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S55A-1023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N65AB according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N65AB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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