Raven S55A
N79FA is a Raven S55A, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Tiffin Aire INC, a corporation in Tiffin, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 15, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Raven
- Model
- S55A · all S55As and related versions
- Serial number
- S55A-507
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- AAB62A (octal 52533052)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 15, 1979
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00755060
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tiffin Aire INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1778 W US Highway 224
Tiffin, OH 44883-8820
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N79FA, 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 Tiffin Aire INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 7, 2020, expires February 28, 2030. 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-507 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N79FA 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N79FA. 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