Ryan NAVION
N4472K is a Ryan NAVION, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Burke, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 26, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 3, 1956.
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 9:53 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ryan
- Model
- NAVION · all NAVIONs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Ryan NAVION family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- NAV-4-1472
- 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
- 4
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A56746 (octal 51263506)
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 26, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 26, 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 · April 3, 1956
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00652624
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clark James D
- 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
- 9110 Parliament Dr
Burke, VA 22015-2155
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 N4472K links to the rest of the register
- Ryan NAVION 170 registered
- Ryan 367 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental E185 series 1,108 aircraft with this engine series · 205 hp
- Type certificate A-782 · held by Sierra Hotel Aero INC
- Burke, VA 13 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Ryan NAVION 1 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Continental E185 series 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental E185 series 9 reports since 1995
- Where N4472K is now · Last seen October 15 at 9:53 am.
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The public federal record on N4472K, 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 Clark James D, an individual, certificate issued July 26, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 3, 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-4-1472 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4472K 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4472K. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data