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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026North 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.
Where is it now Last seen October 14 at 3:48 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- NAVION L-17A
- Serial number
- NAV-4-839
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 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 registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 30, 1956
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00870580
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Roos Patrick R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 37579 North Fork Rd
Purcellville, VA 20132-5027
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.
Connections how N109F links to the rest of the register
- North American 1,297 aircraft on the register
- Continental E185 series 1,107 aircraft with this engine series · 205 hp
- Purcellville, VA 26 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,974 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental E185 series 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental E185 series 9 reports since 1995
- Where N109F is now · Last seen October 14 at 3:48 pm.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data