Navion NAVION H
N23D is a Navion NAVION H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Max Airways LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 2011 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 25, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Navion
- Model
- NAVION H · all NAVION Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- NAV-4-2523
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A20672 (octal 50403162)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 2011
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 25, 1995
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00045178
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Max Airways LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N23D, 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 Max Airways LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 10, 2011, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 25, 1995, 27 years after the 1968 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-4-2523 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N23D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dreisbach-Harold SMYTH SIDEWINDER (serial 212220, cancelled June 7, 1993). 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]
1 NTSB record under N23D: Accident on March 29, 1990 at Georgetown, CA: serious 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: Smyth Sidewinder SMYTH · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO ABORT HIS LANDING AND EXECUTE A GO-AROUND.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX90DVG03 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
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