Ryan NAVION A
N4856K 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 Montcalm Aviation LLC, an LLC in Coral, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 10, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 20, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ryan
- Model
- NAVION A · all NAVION As and related versions
- Serial number
- NAV-4-1856
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor E225 SERIES · 225 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1949
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A5FE60 (octal 51377140)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 10, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 20, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00120355
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Montcalm Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 6104 Mary Ann Dr
Coral, MI 49322-9790
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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 N4856K, 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 Montcalm Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 10, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 20, 1956, 7 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-4-1856 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4856K 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 N4856K: Accident on November 5, 2020 at Fremont, MI: minor 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: Navion A · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper positioning of the fuel selector during takeoff, which was not in accordance with the preflight checklist and resulted in fuel starvation, a subsequent total loss of engine power, and an aerodynamic stall during an attempted forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN21LA046 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