North American NAVION L-17A
N109F is a North American NAVION L-17A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Purcellville, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 30, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- NAVION L-17A
- Serial number
- NAV-4-839
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor E185 SERIES · 205 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A026A0 (octal 50023240)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 30, 1956
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00870580
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Roos Patrick R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 37579 North Fork Rd
Purcellville, VA 20132-5027
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N109F, 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 Roos Patrick R, an individual, certificate issued July 28, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 30, 1956, 9 years after the 1947 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial NAV-4-839 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N109F 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]
1 NTSB record under N109F: Accident on June 16, 1999 at Osceola, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: North American NAVION L-17A · operated under 091
the pilot's mismanagement of the fuel system in that he had the fuel selector positioned to a tank which did not contain sufficient fuel for the flight. Factors associated with the accident were the crop and the ditch which the airplane encountered during the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99LA186 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data