{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1982-03-23","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2008-01-14","city":"FENTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"125","cruise_speed_mph":60,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-11","maker":"Raven","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RAVEN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7480402","mode_s_code":"51172240","mode_s_hex":"A4F4A0","model":"S55A","n_number":"N4183G","name":"BALLOON QUEST INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"HUTCHINSON","damage":"SUBS","date":"1995-04-26","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI95TA151","probable_cause":"The pilot's inadequate compensation for the wind conditions. Factors associated with the accident were the crosswind and soft terrain.","registration":"N4183G","state":"MN","summary":"Accident on April 26, 1995 at Hutchinson, MN: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4183G is a Raven S55A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1982. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Balloon Quest INC, a corporation in Fenton, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2008 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 23, 1982.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Balloon Quest INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 14, 2008, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 23, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S55A-881 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N4183G according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N4183G: Accident on April 26, 1995 at Hutchinson, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"S55A-881","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2470 GRANGE HALL RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00701664","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4183G","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1982,"zip":"484301634"}