{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1979-04-18","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1979-06-19","city":"ILION","country_code":"US","county_code":"043","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2027-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-17","maker":"Raven Industries Inc.","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RAVEN INDUSTRIES INC.","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7480503","mode_s_code":"51612345","mode_s_hex":"A714E5","model":"RALLY RX7","n_number":"N5554C","name":"BALDOCK TOM","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5554C is a Raven Industries Inc. RALLY RX7, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Ilion, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 19, 1979 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 18, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Baldock Tom, an individual, certificate issued June 19, 1979, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RX7-115 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5554C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170A (serial 19607, cancelled June 8, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N5554C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"RX7-115","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1820 STATE ROUTE 51","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00693595","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5554C","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"133574206"}