Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S-55A
N88DC is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S-55A, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Des Moines, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 24, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- RAVEN S-55A · all RAVEN S-55As and related versions
- Serial number
- S55A-3018
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC1BCA (octal 53015712)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 27, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 24, 1986
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00081567
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Borts Wyman L JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2901 Grand Ave #302
Des Moines, IA 50312
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N88DC, 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 Borts Wyman L JR, an individual, certificate issued September 27, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. 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-3018 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88DC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech E-55 (serial TE-1015, cancelled February 7, 1978). 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 N88DC. 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 September 30, 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