Ryan NAVION B
N27AW is a Ryan NAVION B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1950. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Annapolis, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2014 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 2, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ryan
- Model
- NAVION B · all NAVION Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 4-2172B
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming GO-480 SERIES · 295 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A2A438 (octal 50522070)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 27, 2014
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 2, 1981
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00382545
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bold William H JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1979 Baltimore Annapolis Blvd
Annapolis, MD 21409-6256
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.
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The public federal record on N27AW, 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 Bold William H JR, an individual, certificate issued February 27, 2014, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 2, 1981, 31 years after the 1950 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 4-2172B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N27AW 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 N27AW: Accident on July 27, 2019 at Chicago, IL: 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: Ryan NAVION · operated under 091
The failure of the left main landing gear upper side brace assembly during landing due to reverse bending fatigue as a result of the incomplete penetration of the circumferential weld during initial production of the component.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN19LA251 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