Ryan NAVION A
N4827K is a Ryan NAVION A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 5 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other; aerial surveying; weather control, dated May 4, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ryan
- Model
- NAVION A · all NAVION As and related versions
- Serial number
- NAV-4-1827
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor E225-4 · 225 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1949
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A5F35E (octal 51371536)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 21, 2009
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other; Aerial surveying; Weather control · May 4, 2012
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00010255
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kirst Forest M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 73621
Fairbanks, AK 99707-3621 - Co-owners
- Kirst Tracey B
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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 N4827K, 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 Kirst Forest M, a co-owned, certificate issued July 21, 2009, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 4, 2012, 63 years after the 1949 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-4-1827 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4827K 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 N4827K: Accident on August 24, 2014 at Coldfoot, AK: 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: Ryan NAVION A · operated under 135
The pilot’s improper inflight planning and improper decision to deliberately operate the airplane at low altitude in close proximity to obstructions and rising terrain. Contributing to the accident were the pilot’s improper preflight planning and the Federal Aviation Administration’s inappropriate decision to issue a 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135 certificate to the operator despite the pilot’s history of accidents, incidents, reexaminations, and checkride failures.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC14FA068 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