Ryan NAVION A
N4442K is a Ryan NAVION A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Meade, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 2, 1999 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 15, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ryan
- Model
- NAVION A · all NAVION As and related versions
- Serial number
- NAV-4-1442
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor E185 SERIES · 205 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A55C21 (octal 51256041)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 2, 1999
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 15, 1956
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00562494
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Judy Ronald W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- Hc 1 Box 45
Meade, KS 67864-9317
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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 N4442K, 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 Judy Ronald W, an individual, certificate issued February 2, 1999, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 15, 1956, 8 years after the 1948 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-4-1442 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4442K 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 N4442K: Accident on April 29, 1990 at Denison, TX: 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 A · operated under 091
PILOT'S ATTEMPTED TAKEOFF WITH CONDITIONS IN EXCESS OF THE AIRPLANE'S PERFORMANCE CAPABILITIES. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE AND THE UPHILL RUNWAY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW90LA104 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